Language:
English
Pages:
28 + 19 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1961
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Journalists.
;
Refugees.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Chicago (Ill.)
;
Michigan.
;
New York (N.Y.)
;
United States.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The author was among the first group of concentration camp survivors, who arrived in the United States under the Truman Refugee Relief Act. He had an interrupted education due to the years in Nazi Germany and in various concentration camps, where he had lost almost his entire family. Description of his first impressions of New York and American life. Ernest went to Chicago where he was welcomed in the family of a former acquaintance, an officer in the US army, for whom he had worked as an interpreter in Germany. He was determined to find work as a newspaper reporter, which was the only profession he had obtained during his time in post-war Germany. He was sent to a small town in Michigan, where he started out as a copyboy for a small paper, in order to get experience in the newspaper world. After an invitation at the local college to speak about his experiences in Nazi-Germany, he became a speaker in various local organizations and was promoted to become a columnist for the paper, where he was to share his thoughts as an immigrant in the new country.
Note:
English
URL:
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