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Oral history interview with Roy Calder

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.171 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0171

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    Oral history interview with Roy Calder

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Roy Calder describes his early life in an assimilated family in Berlin and Dresden; his invovlement in Jewish youth groups; his awareness of increased antisemitism after the Nazi rise to power; his parents' decision to send him to school in Switzerland in 1935; his attempts to convince his family to leave Germany; his regret that they did not; his decision to immigrate to Great Britain; the jobs he held in Birmingham, England; the beginning of World War II in 1939; his internment as an enemy alien in Sherbrooke, Canada; his return to England in late 1940; why he volunteered for the British army; his six year service in Scotland, Nigeria, India, and Burma; his marriage to another Holocaust survivor; his decision to immigrate to the United States in 1953; his Jewish identity; and the effects the events of the Holocaust had on him and his wife.
    Interviewee
    Roy Calder
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Ruth Durling
    Constance Bernstein
    Date
    interview:  1993 July 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Calder, Roy.
    Corporate Name
    Great Britain. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Roy Calder on July 23, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    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 08:44:09
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