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Oral history interview with Herma Barber

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0356 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0442

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    Oral history interview with Herma Barber

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Herma Barber, born in 1921 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her childhood; experiencing antisemitism after the Anschluss in 1938; her and her parents' unsuccessful attempts to immigrate to the United States and their decision to go to Yugoslavia instead; their journey into Yugoslavia by foot; their arrest in Zagreb, Croatia and spending a week in jail; being confined to the town of Samobor after their release from jail; deportation by the Ustaša in 1941 to Mostar, which the Italian military occupied; being moved to Čapljina by the Italians; traveling to Split, Croatia without permission and being arrested and put in jail by the Italians for a week; being moved to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where she worked in a restaurant and also did knitting for a store; not having enough to eat; going to an Italian-run concentration camp in 1943; their escape from the camp to a partisan-controlled area of Yugoslavia; being in the same town as Randolph Churchill during a British diplomatic mission to the partisans in Drvar in 1944; moving constantly with help from partisans; she and her parents escaping separately to Bari, Italy in 1944 and 1945; her life in the refugee camp at Bari and her marriage in 1946; and her parents' immigration to the United States in 1946 and her immigration to the United States in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Barber, Mrs. Herma Ellenboghen
    Interviewer
    Amy Rubin
    Date
    interview:  1996 August 11

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Barber, Herma, 1921-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Amy Rubin, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Herma Barber on August 11, 1996.
    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 08:02:54
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