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Oral history interview with Robert Treuer

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.030.0423

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    Oral history interview with Robert Treuer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Robert Treuer, born in Vienna, Austria on January 31, 1926, describes antisemitism he experienced in his neighborhood and at school; the positive reception that many Austrians had for the 1938 Anschluss; the implementation of Nuremberg Laws in Austria; his father’s attempts to get his family out of the country; feeling the pressure of being Jewish immediately after the Anschluss; round-ups of Jews to scrub the streets; his and his mother’s immigration to England; beginning school in England; the closing of his father’s business after he and his mother fled Austria; his father’s immigration to England; leaving school and moving into a Spanish children’s camp for a short period; moving to an Irish school before his father’s arrival in England; the strict American immigration quotas; being able to get into the United States in 1939 after receiving an affidavit from an acquaintance of his father; and finding out what happened to his family members who had remained in Europe.
    Interviewee
    Robert Treuer
    Interviewer
    Chris Johnson
    Date
    interview:  1995 October 27

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Treuer, Robert.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Chris Johnson, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Robert Treuer on October 27, 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 08:02:47
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