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Oral history interview with Henry Blumenfeld

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.101 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0623

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    Oral history interview with Henry Blumenfeld

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    Interview Summary
    Henry (Heinz) Blumenfeld, born in Amsterdam, Holland, on May 31, 1925, discusses his father Erwin Blumenfeld, who was a renowned artist and photographer; his father’s autobiography “Jadis et Daguerre;” his family’s move to Paris, France in 1936; his father’s internment in Montbard-Marmagne, transfer to Le Vernet, and eventual release; his sister Lisette’s internment in Gurs and release; the family receiving visas in Marseille, France from the American Consul; their travel from France to Casablanca, Morocco in 1941; being sent to the camp of Sidi el-Ajachi, near Azemmour, Morocco; finding passage on a Portuguese steamship to the United States; arriving in New York City, NY in August 1941; adjusting to a somewhat carefree life in the US after living under difficult conditions; attending high school in New York; his entrance into Bard College; being called up as a laboratory technician in the US Army from 1943 to 1945; how he helped disembark German prisoners of war in the port of Charleston, SC; graduating cum laude from Harvard and being denied access into medical school because of Jewish quotas ; his shift to a physics doctorate; his research with elementary particles in cloud chambers; his work at Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., and Princeton; his marriage to photographer Kathleen Levy-Barnett, who had assisted his father; his return to France in the mid-1960s to work on research at the French national scientific center Bure-sur-Yvette; and his and his daughter’s work on making his father’s photography known.
    Interviewee
    Dr. Henry Blumenfeld
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2011 May 27

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    3 digital files : WAV.

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    Corporate Name
    United States. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Dr. Henry Blumenfeld in his home in Gif-sur-Yvett, France on May 27, 2011.
    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 08:03:56
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