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Oral history interview with Rolf Hirschberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0476 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0445

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    Oral history interview with Rolf Hirschberg

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    Interview Summary
    Rolf Hirschberg, born in 1902 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood; the death of his father when he was six and his older brother taking over the care of the household; his sickliness as a child; leaving school at age sixteen and working at the same firm that had employed his older brother; developing a friendship and then an intimate relationship with an older man named Emil; Emil's sister-in-law finding out about their relationship and urging them to see Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld; a party that they attended at Magnus Hirschfeld's house; Hitler's rise to power in Germany in 1933 and the beginnings of persecution against homosexuals and Jews; his and Emil's decision to leave the country in 1936; their journey through Europe until they immigrated to the United States in 1937; arranging through a rabbi to have his mother hidden in a nursing home for the elderly; finding an apartment and settling in New York City; his Jewish upbringing and his awareness of antisemitism in Germany; a meeting with a high-school friend who had joined the Nazi Party; his memories of homosexual bars in Berlin during the 1930s; and the fates of family members and other homosexual friends in Germany.
    Interviewee
    Rolf Hirschberg
    Interviewer
    Klaus Müller
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 14

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Klaus Müller, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Rolf Hirschberg on October 14, 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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