Overview
- Interview Summary
- Herbert Meyer, who was born and educated in Germany, describes growing up in a family of assimilated and secular Jews; serving in WWI in the German Army; attending a Jewish high school; the Nazis’ rise to power and realizing that there was a risky future for his family in Germany; going to Switzerland with his family; his two children, Bridgette and Stefan; and going to France.
- Interviewee
- Dr. Herbert Meyer
- Interviewer
- Myron H. Matz
- Date
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interview:
approximately 1970
- Geography
-
creation:
Boston (Mass.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elliot Matz
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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2 digital files : MP3.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives. Jewish refugees--France. Jewish refugees--Switzerland. Jews--Germany. Metallurgists. World War, 1914-1918. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Arlington (Va.) France. Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. Germany. Switzerland. United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Meyer, Herbert.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Elliot Matz donated the interview with Dr. Herbert Meyer to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 6, 2016. Elliot Matz's father Myron H. Matz conducted the interview circa 1970.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:35:15
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