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Oral history interview with Abraham Jaeger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.175 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0175

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    Oral history interview with Abraham Jaeger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Abraham Jaeger, born on March 13, 1916 in Vel'ký Bočkov, Czechoslovakia (now Velykyi Bychkiv, Ukraine), discusses his childhood; his career as a salesman; his escape in October 1939 to Palestine, where he was imprisoned for six months; his experiences serving in the British Army in Egypt, Syria, and Cyprus; joining the Israeli Army in 1948; his career and life in Israel, where he lived until 1958; his immigration to the United States; and the death of his parents and three of sisters in the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Abraham Jaeger
    Date
    interview:  1994 February 07
    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
    Yiddish
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Jaeger, Abraham.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Abraham Jaeger on February 7, 1994. 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 08:44:10
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