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Oral history interview with Walter Horn

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.262 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0262

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    Oral history interview with Walter Horn

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Walter Horn childhood in Krefeld, Germany; his memories of the event of Kristallnacht in November 1938; his father admitting himself to a hospital to avoid arrest; his own arrest and internment in Dachau; the conditions he experienced in the camp; his release after two months, and the family's flight to Ecuador in early 1939; his family establishing a butchery in Ecuador; his immigration to the United States a few years later to live with relatives in Seattle, Washington; his marriage to a fellow German Jewish emigre; and their move to San Francisco, where they had a family and Mr. Horn started a plumbing business.
    Interviewee
    Walter Horn
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1994 September 01
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Horn, Walter.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Walter Horn on September 1, 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 08:44:31
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