Ernest W. Michel, papers 1698, 1938-1996 (bulk 1946-1987)

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Ernest W. Michel, papers 1698, 1938-1996 (bulk 1946-1987)

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This collection contains the papers of Ernest W. Michel, Holocaust Survivor Journalist and public speaker, including clippings of newspaper articles written by and about Michel, correspondence between Michel and many important Jewish and political figures and autograph files, which Michel collected. Many of these files concern Michel’s Holocaust experiences, speaking engagements, the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, and Michel’s work with the United Jewish Appeal.

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Michel, Ernest W., 1923-

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Ernest W. Michel was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany in 1923. In November of 1938, Michel’s father was arrested during the deadly Kristallnacht pogrom. Michel’s family tried to get him out of Germany and into America, but without relatives in the United States, he couldn’t get the required affidavit of care needed to obtain a visa. In 1939 Michel was sent to the first in a series of 11 concentration and Nazi labor camps, among them Buchenwald, Birkenau, Dachau, and Ausc...

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