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Oral history interview with Erwin Friedlander

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.761 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0761

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    Oral history interview with Erwin Friedlander

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Erwin Friedlander, born May 29, 1925 in Cluj, Romania, discusses his childhood in Cluj; the family's move to Bucharest, Romania; his education in a private German Evangelical school; the antisemitism he experienced; being expelled from this school and the public school he next attended; attending a Jewish school that was closed in 1940; being able to attend a French school because he and his family were designated citizens of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; being called to forced labor with other students in June 1941; his work locating undetonated bombs, as a courier, and in construction under the administration of the Romanian military; being able to return to his home every night; the harsh environment in the work detail; the bombing campaigns he experienced; the end of his forced labor in August 1944; his study of physics at the university; a brief imprisonment he was subjected to under the post-war Communist regime; his career as an atomic physicist; and his immigration to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Erwin Friedlander
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  2003 September 07
    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
    Friedlander, Erwin.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Erwin Friedlander on September 7, 2003. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 2004.
    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 08:46:43
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