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Oral history interview with Harry Hankin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.410 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0410

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    Oral history interview with Harry Hankin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Harry Hankin discusses his childhood and youth in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany; the increasing antisemitism he experienced during his childhood and after Hitler's rise to power; the effects of the Nuremberg Laws on Jewish life in Germany; the arrests of his father and himself during Kristallnacht in November 1938; their internment in Dachau concentration camp and the conditions and treatment of Jewish prisoner; the immigration of his mother, brother, and sister to the United States in 1938; his father's immigration to join them in 1939; his own flight from Germany in January 1939 to Great Britain; his work as a gardener and factory worker; the anti-German sentiment he experienced; his war-time work in an armaments factory in Manchester; and his immigration with his wife and children to the United States in 1947.
    Interviewee
    Harry Hankin
    Date
    interview:  1991 October 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
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hankin, Harry.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Harry Hankin on October 17, 1991. 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:45:08
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