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Oral history interview with Herbert Friedman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.364 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0595

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    Oral history interview with Herbert Friedman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Herbert Friedman, born December 11, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, describes his childhood in an Orthodox Jewish family in the 20th District of Vienna; his memories of attending temple with his father; how his parents were originally from Poland; attending public school until he was forced to transfer to a Jewish school; his Bar Mitzvah; antisemitism he experienced as a child; memories of being shown antisemitic films at public school; saving a woman’s life in the Danube River as a young boy and the community backlash that followed; his family’s struggle to leave Austria in 1938; registering with the Palestine Office to leave Austria; the situation in Austria after Germany’s annexation and the events leading up to Kristallnacht; Nazi officers arriving at his family’s home; his experiences with Nazis in Austria; how a friend of his joined the Hitler Youth; helping Jews avoid deportation; preparing to leave Austria on the Kindertransport; traveling to England on the Kindertransport; his feelings about leaving his family behind in Austria; how the rest of his family eventually left Austria; the many places he lived in England; experiencing air raids; his emotions and experiences while supporting himself in England; volunteering as an air raid warden in England; immigrating to the United States with his parents; his disappointment upon moving to the United States; joining the US Army; receiving a scholarship from Loyola College; being sent to the Pacific Theater as part of a medical unit; his experiences as a medic in the infantry; being stationed in Hawaii; attending the University of Hawaii; attending pharmacy school; fighting in the Korean War as a commissioned officer; his feelings of guilt concerning relatives who were murdered in Europe; participating in the documentary “Into the Arms of Strangers;” and his work as a pharmacist in Baltimore, MD.
    Interviewee
    Herbert Friedman
    Interviewer
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    4 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Friedman, Herbert.
    Corporate Name
    United States. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Herbert Friedman during the Kindertransport Association Conference in Arlington, VA on October 17, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:47
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