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Oral history interview with Gabriel Dicker

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.207 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0207

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    Oral history interview with Gabriel Dicker

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gabriel Dicker, born on August 20, 1929 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, discusses his father’s work as part owner of a newspaper; moving with his family to a ghetto near Nyíregyháza in April 1944; being deported to Auschwitz concentration camp; lying about his age; transferring with 500 others to Longwy-Thil concentration camp in France on the Luxemburg border; doing forced labor in an underground salt mine airplane factory for fifteen months; being transported by cattle car to a labor camp in Kochendorf, Germany (now part of Bad Friedrichshall); being transferred again; liberation by Americans on April 1, 1945; living in a displaced person camp near Kraiburg, Austria; transferring to a UN camp; transferring to a displaced person camp at Seldasyne [PH]; immigrating to the United States on December 12, 1947; living with relatives in Allentown, Pennsylvania; his education; serving in the Korean war; becoming an airplane engineer; and retiring in 1990.
    Interviewee
    Gabriel Dicker
    Interviewer
    Marcia Goldberg
    Date
    interview:  2012 August 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dicker, Gabriel.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:37:10
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