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Oral history interview with Werner Epstein

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.29 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0029

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    Oral history interview with Werner Epstein

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Werner Epstein discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; the anti-Jewish regulations he and his family encountered when the Nazis rose to power; his decision to leave Germany after the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; fleeing by bicycle to Belgium, where he prospered until the war began in September 1939; being arrested as an enemy alien; his experiences in a series of detention camps in southern France; his arrest, imprisonment, and deportation to Auschwitz; arriving at Auschwitz; volunteering to work in a coal mine in Silesia, where he remained until December 1944; being ill with malaria, which he contracted while in French detention camps; the death march he endured after the camp’s evacuation in advance of the Soviet Army’s approach; being liberated by Russian Mongol soldiers; journeying to a transit camp in Magdeburg, Germany; reuniting with his fiancee; returning with her to Paris, France, where they settled and he became a chef; and immigrating to California in 1962.
    Interviewee
    Werner Epstein
    Interviewer
    Ellen Szakal
    Marcia Teitelbaum
    Date
    interview:  1992 April 07
    interview:  1992 May 19
    interview:  1992 June 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Epstein, Werner.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Werner Epstein on April 7, 1992, May 19, 1992, and June 9, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 1999.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:43:27
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