Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project

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Interviewer

Tori Chambers Lockler

Publication Date

4-27-2010

Date

2009-12-10

Abstract

This is an oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Hans Max Krieger. Krieger was born in Germany in 1922. At the age of ten, he was accepted into the Gross-Breesen school, an agricultural training farm for Jewish youth, where he studied until 1938. After Kristallnacht, all the children over age seventeen were sent to concentration camps; Krieger, only sixteen at the time, was sent home. His mother and grandfather were able to secure him a place on a Kindertransport, and Krieger escaped to England and ultimately to America, where he worked at William B. Thalhimer's Hyde Farmland in Virginia. Krieger was drafted into the American army, serving in the 71st Infantry Division. He was present at the liberation of the Gunskirchen concentration camp on May 4, 1945. After getting out of the army, Krieger worked in a gas station, eventually owning his own chain of stations before retiring and moving to Florida. He was very active in his temple, helping to start a preschool. At the end of the interview, his son, Jeff Krieger, joins the conversation and reads a poem he wrote about his father's experiences.

Keywords

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Kindertransports (Rescue operations), World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation, World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish veterans--United States--Interviews, Genocide, Crimes against humanity

Extent

01:26:09; 41 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Karlsruhe (Germany); Rhine River; Baden (Baden-Württemberg, Germany); Augsburg (Germany); Gunskirchen (Austria); Israel

Language

English

Digital Date

2022

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

F60-00019

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