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Oral history interview with Carlos Heymann

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.294.39 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0039

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    Oral history interview with Carlos Heymann

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    Interview Summary
    Carlos Heyman, born in Vienna, Austria in 1920, describes living with his family in Czernowitz, Romania (Chernivtsi, Ukraine); speaking several languages, including Ruthenian, German, and Yiddish; his family observing only the main Jewish holidays; attending public school; being in student associations and going to organized activities in the town and hikes in the Carpathian Mountains; having a horse and loving to ride; living in Czernowitz until the age of 19 when he completed the first year of medical school; hearing that bad times were approaching for Jews and deciding to stop his studies; the prevalence of antisemitism even before Hitler’s rise; deciding to immigrate to Chile because he could not withstand the anti-Jewish laws and was afraid of being inducted into the army; his family’s powdered milk factory in Romania, which was overburdened with special taxes; emigrating in 1939 without his parents; his parents’ staying in Romania and providing powdered milk to the German Army; the recruitment of Jewish women to go to work in the copper mines and the young men to the army; sending correspondence to his parents via Vienna, Austria; his first job as a peddler in Chile; marring at age 22 in 1942; his parents’ immigration to Chile later on; and his parents starting a new factory like the one they had in Romania.
    Interviewee
    Carlos Heymann
    Interviewer
    Ximena Hinzpeter
    Date
    interview:  2010 May 25
    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 Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Heymann, Carlos, 1919-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Fundación Memoria Viva donated the interview with Carlos Heymann conducted May 25, 2010 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 09:28:08
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