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Oral history interview with Heintz Volman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.294 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0294

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    Oral history interview with Heintz Volman

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    Interview Summary
    Heinz Volman (also spelled Wolman), born in 1920 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, recounts being the second of three sons; his father's World War I service in the Russian army and capture in Germany as a prisoner of war (he remained there and established a successful tailoring business); difficulties finding a quorum for his bar mitzvah due to laws against Jews gathering together; his father's trip to Palestine in 1934, then sending his older brother to school there; antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school and an electrician's apprenticeship due to anti-Jewish laws; reluctantly joining his father's business; Nazis vandalizing their home and beating his parents on Kristallnacht and his arrest for defending them; local imprisonment, then transfer to Sachsenhausen with his father; enduring frequent beatings, slave labor, and pointless exercises; his father sharing extra food with him; Martin Niemöller obtaining medication for Jewish prisoners; being released in 1939 based on his pledge to leave Germany; receiving assistance from his father's customer in Berlin during his return home; immigrating to Palestine with his parents via Vienna and Dubrovnik (his younger brother immigrated to Palestine with a children's group); marriage; the births of three children; and receiving compensation for his family's home and for injuries received in Sachsenhausen, which he visited with his daughter. (He shows photographs.)
    Interviewee
    Heintz Volman
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Heintz Volman in Israel on October 10, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on December 3, 1997, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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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    2024-02-27 15:12:08
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