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Oral history interview with Carmen Barros

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.294.6 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0006

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    Oral history interview with Carmen Barros

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Carmen Aida Barros Alfonso, born January 7, 1925 in Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile, describes growing up as the daughter of Tobías Barros, the Chilean ambassador to Germany; arriving in Berlin, Germany June 15, 1940, the day after Paris fell to the Germans, and being received by the charge d’afairs and Chilean writer, Carlos Morla Lynch; how lack of lights at night during that time marked her for life; the ambassador’s house and the use of the basement as a bunker; the xenophobic attitudes of her German classmates; being home-schooled; her family’s trip to Paris, France, where they met other Chileans; hiding a Jewish friend of their maid for three months; how after her father’s post in Berlin ended they traveled to Biarritz, France and Lisbon, Portugal before boarding the Cabo de Hornos in Cadiz, Spain and returning to Chile; and Lynch’s role in the transfer of Jews from Germany to Switzerland after the war.
    Interviewee
    Carmen Barros
    Interviewer
    Alejandra M. Stekel
    Date
    interview:  2011 September 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fundación Memoria Viva

    Physical Details

    Language
    Spanish
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 digital file : MOV.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

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    Corporate Name
    Cabo de Hornos (Ship)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Fundación Memoria Viva donated the interview with Carmen Barros conducted September 9, 2011 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in May 2012. The interview is part of the Voces de la Shoá oral history collection.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:27:55
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