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Oral history interview with Guido Calabresi

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2017.266.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0942

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    Oral history interview with Guido Calabresi

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Guido Calabresi, born October 18, 1932 in Milan, Italy, describes the background of his Italian Jewish family; his mother, who came from the Finzi-Contini family; his father Massimo Calabresi, who was a cardiologist; his older brother; his family’s decision to leave Italy because of the racial laws enacted by Mussolini against Jews in 1938; how his whole family survived WWII; the difficulty of leaving Italy after the war began; the difficulties of adjusting to American life and facing poverty after living prosperously in Italy; living in a hotel in Manhattan; the fellowship at Yale his father received and the postponement of the fellowship; feeling isolated and like an outsider in the Yale community; the numerous Mussolini supporters in the Italian-American community in New Haven, CT; his parents’ involvement in the anti-fascist movement in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s; the minority of people in New Haven interested in anti-fascist activities; visiting Italy with his brother after the war; his career as a judge; his various extended family members who went to Palestine, Brazil, or remained in Italy; and his current project, writing a book about his family members who stayed in Italy.
    Interviewee
    Judge Guido Calabresi
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2017 July 27
    Geography
    creation: New Haven (Conn.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Calabresi, Guido, 1932-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Guido Calabresi on July 27, 2017 in New Haven, CT.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:05:42
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