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Oral history interview with Aby Hervy

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.321 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0321

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    Oral history interview with Aby Hervy

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Aby Hervy (né Hirschowitz), born on June 3, 1910 in Tartu, Estonia, describes his childhood in Tartu; his service in the Estonian army; his medical education; his marriage in 1939; the Soviet occupation of Estonia; his son's birth in 1941; his move to Liepaja, Latvia to join his wife; being forced into the ghetto by the Nazis; leaving his son on the steps of an orphanage to save him; his infant son's death; his work in the ghetto; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942; being deported with his wife to Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga, Latvia; the forced labor he performed; his wife's death from illness; his own illness and being hidden by the camp doctor; the liquidation of Kaiserwald; his time in Stutthof, Magdeburg-Polte, and Sachsenhausen in Germany; his extreme illness in the last days of the war; being saved by inmates at a French prison camp; his time in a hospital in Hanover and Labro, Sweden to recuperate; his time with a Swedish family for more than two years; his work in a library at a children's hospital; his immigration to the United States in 1948; his remarriage; moving to Montreal, Canada and then to California; the death of his wife; and his ongoing assistance to family members living in Estonia.
    Interviewee
    Aby Hervy
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1997 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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hervy, Aby.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Aby Hervy on September 1, 1997. 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 08:44:44
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