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Oral history interview with Jack Ellis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.14 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0014

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    Oral history interview with Jack Ellis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jack Ellis describes his two younger sisters, Rhoda and Gertrude; his father’s scrap metal business; his father dying when Jack was 10 years old; the restrictions on Jews beginning in 1938; being kicked out of gymnasium; Polish Jews being deported in October 1938; being sent to an area between Germany and Poland and being provided for by the Jewish community; going to Łódź, Poland, where he had family; receiving help and accommodations from the Jewish Federation; being forced into the ghetto and the conditions there; volunteering to go to Germany in 1940 in order to help his family; conditions in the camp; his work building super highways; learning that his mother had died; the liquidation of the camp in 1942; being sent to Auschwitz in cattle cars; arriving in the camp and being assigned to different commandos; seeing five inmates hanged; feeling lucky to work in a post office sorting mail; being evacuated in early 1945 and being marched then taken to Bergen-Belsen; being liberated by the British; going to a displaced persons camp; his sister surviving and going to Holland; going to Buffalo, NY in 1949; the psychological effects of his experiences; and his hope that his testimony will convince people that the Holocaust did happen.
    Interviewee
    Jack Ellis
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 July

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ellis, Jack.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Jack Ellis with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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