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Oral history interview with Paul Bleicher

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.996 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0996

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    Oral history interview with Paul Bleicher

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Paul Bleicher discusses his childhood in Czestochowa, Poland; the family's move to Sosnowiec while he was a young child; his memories of the German occupation of Sosnowiec after the invasion of Poland in September 1939; his experiences in nine concentration camps, beginning with his deportation to a sub-camp of Gross Rosen (Gabersdorf) in 1940, then to sub-camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, including Blechammer, and Laurahutte, and in 1943 to Bunzlau, another sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; his transfer to Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps, where he worked in munitions factories; going to Ellrich subcamp of Buchenwald and then to Bergen-Belsen from which he was liberated; being reunited with two sisters and his future wife; their move to Celle, Germany to find care at a local hospital; their experiences in a refugee shelter outside of Munich, where he married and, in 1946, had a daughter; his family's immigration to the United States; his business enterprises in New York; and his retirement to Florida in 1980.
    Interviewee
    Paul Bleicher
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 15
    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
    Bleicher, Paul.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Paul Bleicher on August 15, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in November 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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