Oral history interview with Harry Alexander

Harry Alexander was born on July 12, 1921 in Leipzig, Germany and describes growing up in a family of seven children; his memories of Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938 and being imprisoned for a short period around this time; his mother bribing the guards for his release on the condition that he would leave the country; heading to Italy but getting caught while attempting to cross into France on the way; his internment in the Manosque concentration camp in France; escaping and joining the French resistance in the woods, where he was eventually caught and sent to a camp in Argelès-sur-Mer, France; his transfer by ship to the Djelfa concentration camp in Algeria in 1941; his liberation by the United States army in 1942 but being left in the camp without relief; his release from the camp by the British army five months later; joining the British army to fight the Nazis; being assigned to Düsseldorf to interrogate Nazi prisoners; his discharge from the army one year later; and immigrating to the United States from England in 1946.