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Oral history interview with Fred Lorber

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.9 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0652

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    Oral history interview with Fred Lorber

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Fred Lorber (b. Fritz Lorber) describes his early years growing up in Vienna, Austria; his modern Orthodox religious upbringing; his educational experience at an Austrian public school; his memories of the Anschluss; antisemitism he experienced in the 1930s; changes in Vienna during the Nazi occupation; what happened to his family during Kristallnacht; his father’s arrest and imprisonment in Dachau; how the Jewish community in Vienna coped with anti-Jewish laws and with being expelled from schools and professions; feelings of unease after the Nazi occupation of Vienna; how his school friend’s uncle and his mother helped get his father out of Dachau; when his family received their American visas; their arrival in New York, NY; attending an American high school and his Americanization process; how his family found financial success in the United States; being drafted into the army in 1943; his feelings of discomfort because he was not an American-born citizen; basic training; his brief time in Casablanca, Morocco before being moved to Italy; the Italian campaign; relations between US GIs and Italian civilians; being picked to go to Austria because of his German language skills; his feelings while being back in Vienna; his return to his former apartment; relations with Viennese citizens; his involvement in translating interrogations; antisemitism he found in post-War Austria; the experience of his family members who remained in Europe; his post-war family life in Des Moines, where he became involved in the Jewish community; and the aid he and his family gave to Russian immigrants who arrived in Des Moines in the 1970s.
    Interviewee
    Fred Lorber
    Interviewer
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu
    Date
    interview:  2011 December 02
    interview:  2011 December 08

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

    Rights & Restrictions

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Lorber, Fred.
    Corporate Name
    United States. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Fred Lorber by telephone on December 2, 2011 and December 8, 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 08:04:06
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