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Oral history interview with Lucille Eichengreen

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.251 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0417

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    Oral history interview with Lucille Eichengreen

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    Interview Summary
    Lucille Eichengreen, born on February 1, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses her happy childhood; the arrival of SA troops that were placed around her community; being taunted at school for her religion; her family's belief that they were protected as former Polish nationals; her memories of Kristallnacht and of her father being taken away to Poland; shipping most of her family’s household goods to an uncle in Palestine; her father's death in Dachau concentration camp in 1941; her family’s transport to the Łódź ghetto; the conditions in the ghetto, including its lack of food and sanitation; tensions between the Western and the Eastern Jews in the ghetto; her mother’s death in July 1942; how she and her sister buried their mother's body; Chaim Rumkowski's role in the deportation of the young and the old from Łódź, including her sister; the difficulties of finding a job in the ghetto as a woman; her close relationship with Isaiah Spiegel; working in the administrative offices of the ghetto and finding out information to which only few had access; her frequent meetings with Rumkowski and his physical abuse; her deportation from Łódź in the fall of 1944 to Auschwitz and then Bergen-Belsen, where the British liberated her; her immigration to New York after the war and finding a job in a glove factory; and meeting her husband in New York and then moving to California.
    Interviewee
    Lucille Eichengreen
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2001 November 07

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    7 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Lucille Eichengreen on November 7, 2001. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in January 2002.
    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 08:02:45
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