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Oral history interview with Alfred Batzdorff

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.299 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0299

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    Oral history interview with Alfred Batzdorff

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alfred Batzdorff, born on February 19, 1922 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), describes his parents; his mother (maiden name Allendorf), who was a housewife and opera singer; his brother (who eventually became a neurosurgeon in California); his grandparents; his maternal grandmother's activity in the women's movement in Germany; his father, who was a physician; being assimilated and his father attending synagogue on holidays; his experiences with antisemitism; being assigned to a bus going to Buchenwald and staying behind, hiding among the elderly; managing to be placed on a Kindertransport to England; his wife, Suzanne Batzdorff, whom he originally met in Germany and reconnected with in New York; and his three sons and many grandchildren.
    Interviewee
    Alfred Batzdorff
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1994 March 03
    interview:  1994 May 12
    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
    Batzdorff, Alfred, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Alfred Batzdorff on March 3, 1994 and May 12, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:44:38
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