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Oral history interview with Ernst Mehlman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.437 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0437

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    Oral history interview with Ernst Mehlman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ernst Mehlman describes his childhood in Belz, Poland (Ukraine) and Vienna, Austria; his education; and his apprenticeship and work as a tailor; the Anschluss; his deportation to a labor camp in Dietersberg, Austria in 1938; his escape to Switzerland that same year; moving to France to join his brother in 1939; being interned in France; immigrating to the United States in 1940; his service in the US Army; his civilian work in Heidelberg, Germany; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Ernst Mehlman
    Date
    interview:  2000 March 01
    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
    1 videocassette (Hi8) : sound, color ; 8mm.

    Rights & Restrictions

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    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Mehlman, Ernst.
    Corporate Name
    United States. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ernst Mehlman on March 1, 2000. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 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 08:45:15
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