Oscar M. Ehrenberg (1930-2007)
Oscar Ehrenberg was one of only two members of his family to survive the Holocaust. He rarely talked about his own Holocaust experiences, but frequently spoke about its cultural, political, and social underpinnings at schools, civic organizations, churches, military bases, and synagogues. Oscar’s public addresses reflected his enduring concern for the hungry and persecuted everywhere, which led him to spearhead local fundraising efforts for victims of tribal genocide and the resulting refugee crisis in Rwanda, victims of black church arson in the American south, and victims of ethnic conflict in the Balkans, among others.
A rare occasion on which Oscar spoke publicly about his personal holocaust experience was taped on July 22, 2000 during an address to Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio.
Shortly before his death, local civic leaders formed and endowed the Oscar Ehrenberg Fund under the auspices of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio. The Fund supports educational programs for students in schools throughout Texas teaching the history of the Holocaust and what came to be Oscar’s lifelong examination of the causes of bigotry and racism.
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