Eyewitness Talk with Manfred Eisner (in German)
In conversation with Aubrey Pomerance, head of the JMB archive, author Manfred Eisner talks about the life of his German-Jewish family and his childhood and youth in Bolivia.
Manfred Eisner was born in Munich in 1935, the son of Erich and Elsa Eisner. His father was a conductor, pianist and composer, his mother the manager of a shoe store. In 1933, Erich Eisner was one of the co-founders of the Jewish Cultural Association in Bavaria and led its orchestra.
On November 10, 1938, he was deported to Dachau concentration camp and was only released when emigration could be proven for him. He went to Bolivia via England, where Manfred and his mother followed him a year later. Erich Eisner was appointed founding director of the Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra in 1945 and led it successfully until his death in 1956.
Manfred Eisner spent his school years in La Paz and Montevideo, and was also active in the Zionist Youth. One year after the death of his father, he returned to Germany with his mother. He studied food technology in Berlin and has been an author since 2013. He has published the family chronicle Hated-Loved Germany and a fourteen-part crime novel series.
(IN GERMAN)
Dates
June 2025
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