Overview
- Interview Summary
- Ernest Josef Gans (born in 1892) describes his early life in Weimar, Germany; attending a university before World War I began; being part of a Jewish fraternity and learning to fence; his participation in WWI and experiencing combat in Poland, Russia, and France; being awarded the Iron Cross First Class in 1917; attending law school at the University of Munich in 1919; practicing law in Berlin, Germany after 1922; the Nazi-led boycotts in 1933; the Nuremburg Laws; the increase in restrictions in 1936; Gestapo investigations and interrogations in 1936; fleeing in 1938 to Holland four weeks before Kristallnacht; arriving in the United States in 1939; and resuming his law practice in 1951, helping Holocaust survivors get reparations.
- Interviewee
- Ernest J. Gans
- Interviewer
- Robert Stark M.D.
- Date
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interview:
1977-1979
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dr. Robert M. Stark
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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3 DVD.
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- Copyright Holder
- Robert Stark M.D.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Anti-Jewish boycotts--Germany. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Iron Cross. Jewish refugees--Netherlands. Jewish refugees--United States. Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945. Jews--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia) Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. Lawyers. World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Europe. World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--German Americans. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Berlin (Germany) France. Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. Holland (Netherlands : Province) Munich (Germany) Poland. Russia. United States--Emigration and immigration. Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Personal Name
- Gans, Ernest Josef, 1892-1992.
- Corporate Name
- University of Munich
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. Robert Stark donated the oral history interview with Ernest Josef Gans to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on August 20, 2015. Robert Stark conducted the interview in Pleasant Ridge, MI from 1977 to 1979.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:34:59
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