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Oral history interview with Eitan Ginat

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.53 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0053

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    Oral history interview with Eitan Ginat

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    Interview Summary
    Eitan Ginat (né Otto Dniyevsky), born in 1920, in Vienna, Austria, describes life in Vienna and the rise of Nazism; his family’s move in 1935 to Belgium, where their father had business connections; his father’s opposition to Zionism; being taken on May 10 with other refugees to a camp in St. Cyprien near the Spanish border; the nearby Gurs camp; being discharged from the camp; he joined the rest of his family near Toulouse; being a student at Montpellier University and emphasizes the strong influence of Zionist organizations; how he and the Zionist Congress members had to go underground when identification papers were required of them; moving to Grenoble, with the help of an Italian Colonel, and registering and living at the university; a training school for counselors that they established and those associated with it who dispersed in August 1943; the extensive underground activities near the university involving moving, hiding Jewish families, and trying to get children to Palestine; being called Toto while he worked with the underground movement; eventually being caught and sent to a labor camp near Karlsruhe, Germany; the war's end and going to Paris, France to complete his PhD; and obtaining a certificate to immigrate to Palestine.
    Interviewee
    Eitan Ginat
    Date
    interview:  1993 May 04
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    8 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ginat, Eitan, 1920-
    Corporate Name
    Gurs (Concentration camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Eitan Ginat in Israel on May 4, 1993, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:14:41
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