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Oral history interview with Adi Eisenberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.233.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0230

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    Oral history interview with Adi Eisenberg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Adi Eisenberg (né Abraham Freiburger), born on February 18, 1935 in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), discusses being an only child to father, Eliezer Freiburger, an accountant, and mother Helene Kolatacz; having religious Zionist grandparents; moving to Skala near Cracow at age three; speaking Polish, German, and Yiddish; being frightened in September 1939 when the Germans invaded; moving to his grandparents’ house; his grandparents’ businesses being taken away in 1940; experiencing antisemitism; going back to the countryside with his mother while his father stayed; his father being taken and shot on September 23, 1942; taking a new name, Adam Mokra, going with his mother to Zakopane by train in November 1942; crossing the border into Czechoslovakia then to the Hungarian border; walking with a group of eight people; being taken to a civilian jail for crossing the border illegally and receiving 20 pots of cholent (stew) from the Jewish community; being transported to Budapest, Hungary by train to another jail where he stayed for a month; being released as a political refugee; living near Kolorcha for six months as a Christian; going back to Budapest, where the Joint helped them rent an apartment; going into shelters during bombings until January 1945; returning to Skala for a short time; going to Munich, Germany and then to the displaced persons camp Bad Reichenhall until 1951; his mother getting married to Oscar Eisenberg, who adopted Adi; having a Bar Mitzvah in the DP camp and going to school; sailing on the General Blatchford ship with other refugees to New York, NY; being met by the Jewish Agency; living in Worcester, MA near his aunt; going to high school and working as a pants presser; graduating from Worcester Polytechnic Institute; getting a Ph. D from Princeton in chemistry; being a professor at UCLA and McGill University; his feelings about the Holocaust; and his bond with other survivors.
    Interviewee
    Adi Eisenberg
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  2014 August 29

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Eisenberg, A. (Adi)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Gail Schwartz, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Adi Eisenberg on August 29, 2014 in Kensington, MD.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:13:11
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