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Oral history interview with Peter Flusser

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.405 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0405

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    Oral history interview with Peter Flusser

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Peter Flusser, born on July 3, 1930 in Vienna, Austria, discusses attending a private school in Vienna until the age of seven; his non-practicing Jewish father, who worked in textiles before the war, and his Protestant mother, who held a high position at a bank; being raised as a Lutheran and never considering himself Jewish; his entire family leaving Vienna before the Anschluss and moving to Prague (his family still had Czech citizenship); his parent’s separation and going with his mother to Shanghai, China, where a cousin already lived; his younger sister Susan, who was two years old at the time, staying in Prague with his father; passing through Paris, Colombo, Saigon, and Hong Kong on the way to Shanghai; his father and sister arriving in Shanghai in 1941; his mother remarrying; the Japanese requiring his family to move to the Hongkou district ghetto; attending St. Francis Xavier College outside the district; how his home was destroyed during an American bombing of the nearby Japanese Naval Headquarters; being injured in the rubble and having his leg amputated after gangrene developed from his wounds; applying for a visa to the United States at the end of the war; traveling to the US in 1947; his mother, sister, and stepfather living in a German displaced persons camp until their US Visa application was approved a year later; his father and his new wife settling in Vancouver; attending Columbia University until 1955 when his future wife convinced him to finish his studies in Kansas; finishing his doctorate; having four children; and teaching mathematics at a private college in Kansas.
    Interviewee
    Peter Flusser
    Date
    interview:  2002 April 22
    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
    Flusser, Peter.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Peter Flusser on April 22, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.
    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 08:45:06
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