Testimony of Ernst Gross, born in Halle, Germany, October 1905, regarding his life in Berlin as a Jewish man married to an Aryan woman, 1933-1945

Testimony of Ernst Gross, born in Halle, Germany, October 1905, regarding his life in Berlin as a Jewish man married to an Aryan woman, 1933-1945 Transcript of the interview of Ernst Gross conducted by Dr. Kurt J. Ball-Kaduri in Jerusalem. - Ernst Gross' father is a cantor and businessman from Neumark; move of his parents from Halle to France, 03 February 1938; help from a rabbi in finding a place in Poitier; after that, loss of contact with Ernst Gross; - One brother, born in 1898, was a physician in Leipzig, who died of appendicitis in 1925; - Two sisters, Elly and Frida, both born before 1900 (no date): Elly, who learns how to write on a cecograph, works as a secretary, as a freelancer for newspapers and publishes poems, and is nearly totally blind; deportation of Elly sometime after 1942; Frida who marries a Jew from Poland; births of two sons; decision of Frida and her husband to move to a small city in Poland (no name), 1938; Frida (Gross) is probably Frida Weinstock (Page of Testimony 1879205), born in Hannover, Germany, 1897, and married to Naftali Weinstock, living in Halle prior to moving to Czchow, probably murdered in Zakliczyn, Poland,1942; - Receipt of many letters from his sister Frida by Ernst Gross; cessation of letters and news from his sister, brother-in-law and nephews at some point; - Work as a travelling salesman; marriage to Erna Pohl, a Christian Aryan seamstress born in Berlin, 1932; marriage defined as a "privilegierte Mischehe" (privileged mixed marriage), according to the Nuremberg Laws; birth of a son, Sigfried, 18 September 1933; registration in the Jewish community of Berlin as Jewish; urging of Erna Gross by the Gestapo to baptize their son; refusal to comply; punishment of Erna Gross who is forced to sew uniforms; decision by the couple to have Sigfried baptized, 1940; - Financial difficulties; wearing of the yellow star by Ernst Gross for a short time; forced labor in a fabric factory; victim of raids; detention of Gross and other Jewish men married to Aryans in the Grosse Hamburgerstrasse camp; detention of Gross and other Jewish men married to Aryans in the Rosenstrass camp; protest movement and strikes outside the camp by Christian spouses of the Jewish men detained in the camp; - Release from the Rosenstrasse camp as a privileged Jewish inmate, 06 March 43; finding of better work in a factory that treats Jews and non-Jews equally; end of the war; - Death of Erna Gross, 1946; remarriage of Ernst Gross, 1947; leaving of the church by Sigfried (Sigi), 1948; return to Judaism and circumcision; aliya to Eretz Israel with Youth Aliyah, October 1948; aliya to Eretz Israel and divorce of Ernst Gross from his second wife, 1949; work of Sigi as a plumber; - Mention of Gross' friend Jimmy Neumann whose wife did not demonstrate for his release from the Rosenstrasse camp; - Newspaper clipping of an article by Georg Zivier which appeared in the Munich newspaper, "Die Neue Zeitung", regarding the 6,000 Aryan spouses who successfully demonstrated in March 1943 for the release of their Jewish husbands from the Rosenstrasse camp, 14 January 1946.