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Oral history interview with Ludwig Pick

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.866 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0866

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    Oral history interview with Ludwig Pick

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Pick's childhood in Magdeburg, Germany; his father's ambivalence toward Judaism; his experiences in school; and his childhood acquaintance with Walther Rauff, who later was involved in the implementation of mobile gas vans. Mr. Pick describes his law school education, his career as a judge, being forced to resign his position in order to avoid being discovered to be a Jew, and his decision to leave Germany. Mr. Pick discusses his move to Italy and studying law there, his subsequent immigration to the United States, and settling in Seattle, Washington. He describes his father's imprisonment in Dachau and his flight in 1940 to join Mr. Pick in the United States. Mr. Pick discusses his marriages and career in law, and his two return visits to Germany.
    Interviewee
    Ludwig Pick
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 08
    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 (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ludwig Pick on August 8, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2003.
    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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