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Interview with Irving Bienstock [interview 5], 2020 June 10

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Identifier: OHI-0291
Scope and Contents This is oral history interview part 5 of 6. Irving Bienstock was born in Dortmund, Germany in 1926. Mr. Bienstock was persecuted by the Nazis and fled to the United States. At the time of the interview, Mr. Bienstock resided in Charlotte, NC where he volunteered with the Butterfly Project to educate children about the Holocaust. In this interview, Irving Bienstock speaks on his relationship with Gertrude Wijsmuller, his time in an orphanage in Amsterdam, and his immigration to the United...
Dates: 2020 June 10

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