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Oral history interview with Gunther G. Rechnitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.352 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0352

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    Oral history interview with Gunther G. Rechnitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gunther Rechnitz discusses his childhood in Ratibor, Germany (now Raciborz, Poland); the onset of anti-Jewish discrimination in Germany; his sister's flight on a Kindertransport to Great Britain; his father's arrest after Kristallnacht in November 1938; the family's flight to Shanghai; attending school in Shanghai and learning Chinese; working in a bicycle shop; his memories of his time there as being positive; his sister's move to Shanghai to be with the family in 1945; the family's immigration to the United States in 1947; his marriage and family life.
    Interviewee
    Gunther G. Rechnitz
    Interviewer
    Elizabeth Ryan
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1998 April 15
    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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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gunther G. Rechnitz on April 15, 1998. 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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