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Oral history interview with Eva Leveton

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.337 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0337

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    Oral history interview with Eva Leveton

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eva Leveton discusses her experiences as young German child born to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother during the Nazi period; her childhood in Muenster, Germany; the antisemitism she experienced; the destruction of her home; the boycott of her father's business and his arrest; her father's escape to Amsterdam, Netherlands and subsequent immigration to the United States, while she and her mother remained behind in Germany; being hidden by her mother and non-Jewish grandparents in Berlin; her mother's experiences during the war years; her memories of the bombings in Berlin; her post-war experiences; her immigration with her mother to the United States to rejoin her father; and the difficulties she experienced in adjusting to her new life.
    Interviewee
    Eva Leveton
    Date
    interview:  2001 January 17
    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
    Leveton, Eva.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Eva Leveton on January 17, 2001. 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:44:48
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