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Oral history interview with Erna Karplus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0430 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0444

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    Oral history interview with Erna Karplus

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Erna Sporer Karplus, born in 1907 in Vienna, Austria, describes growing up in Vienna and experiencing very little antisemitism; how her family was deprived of many daily necessities during World War I; becoming a photographer and moving to Paris in 1932; her return to Vienna and marrying her husband in 1936; her fear of Hitler in the 1930s and living in Vienna during the Anschluss; the SS taking her husband and brother-in-law to the local police; moving to Zurich before Kristallnacht with her husband; immigrating to New York in 1938; her parents’ struggles as they moved from Italy to Portugal and finally to New York; the loss of several of her family members who stayed in Europe; adjusting to life in the United States and finding a job wherever she could; moving to Boston about a year after her immigration; her lack of excitement about moving to Palestine when some of her father’s family did; and what her family who immigrated to the United States did with the rest of their lives.
    Interviewee
    Erna Karplus
    Interviewer
    Sandy Tolan
    Date
    interview:  1997 August 27

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (74 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
    Karplus, Erna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Sandy Tolan, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Erna Karplus on August 27, 1997 in Brookline, MA.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:02:54
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