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Oral history interview with Ernie Glaser

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1191 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1191

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    Oral history interview with Ernie Glaser

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ernie Glaser discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; his first memories of changes under the Nazi regime with the passage of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935; the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938, when his family was warned to go into hiding; the arrests of some of his uncles after Kristallnacht; the family's decision to leave Germany for Shanghai, China; their voyage to Shanghai via Trieste, Italy; the family's experiences in Shanghai from July 1939 until June 1947; their residences in the Hong Kew ghetto, the International Settlement district and the French Concession; the Japanese occupation and the family's forced return to the Hong Kew ghetto in 1943; the allied aerial bombings; the end of the war and the arrival of American troops; the family's decision to immigrate to the United States in July 1947; their arrival in San Francisco, CA; and his life as an immigrant in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Ernie Glaser
    Date
    interview:  1984 December 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (90 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Glaser, Ernie.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ernie Glaser on December 7, 1984. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2007.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:48:51
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