Edward Linson
Name at birth
Elias Linson
Date of birth
05/17/1919
Name of father, occupation
Salesman
Immediate family (names, birth order)
Parents, eight children
Edward Linson was born in May, 1919 in Warsaw, Poland. He was the second youngest of eight children and was studying medicine before the war. At the start of the war, Edward worked in the Skoda Factory for the Germans before being taken to Poniatowa and later Majdanek. When he was transferred to Auschwitz, Edward worked in Chemical Kommando 98 at Buna-Monowitz. From Buna-Monowitz, he was taken to several concentration camps before being liberated by the Russians. Edward met and married his wife in Germany and immigrated to America.
To learn more about this survivor please visit the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interview.php?D=linson§ion=34
Where did you go after being liberated?
Went to Berlin, then to Sachenhausen, then Schwerin
Where did you settle?
Detroit, Michigan
When and where were you married?
1946 in Germany
Children
One son
Interviewer:
Sid Bolkosky, U of M Dearborn, Voice Vision Michigan
Interview date:
11/10/1981
To learn more about this survivor, please visit:
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, University of Michigan
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/linson/
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/linson/
