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Oral history interview with Raymond Federman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.18 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0018

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    Oral history interview with Raymond Federman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Raymond Federman, born in 1928, describes his middle-class Jewish family; his two sisters, the eldest named Sara and the youngest named Jacqueline; his Polish father, who moved to Paris, France in 1918 to have more opportunity as a painter; his mother’s Palestinian family and how she lived in an orphanage in the 1910s for nine years; his parents’ arranged marriage; his father suffering from tuberculosis; the German occupation and having to register; the restrictions on Jews and having to wear Jewish stars; hiding when the Gestapo came to his house; the deportation of his parents and sisters to Auschwitz; going to a Jewish neighborhood, where his aunt lived; being taken on a train but jumping off during the journey; returning to Paris; going to Bonn, Germany with two Belgians; living on a farm for two years; immigrating to the United States and settling in Detroit, MI; working at Chrysler and attending Nordon High School; moving to New York, NY in 1951 and being drafted into the army; being sent to Korea and Japan; attending college at Columbia and getting his PhD from UCLA; becoming a French professor in 1963; and writing several books.
    Interviewee
    Raymond Federman
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 July

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Federman, Raymond.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Raymond Federman with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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