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Oral history interview with Gerhard Levy

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.41 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0041

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    Oral history interview with Gerhard Levy

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dr. Gerhard Levy, born in 1928 in Wollin, Germany (Wolin, Poland), describes his father having a large clothing store and being a German veteran from World War I; the presence of only 20 to 30 Jews in town and being the only Jewish child in school; being transferred to a Jewish school in Caputh, Germany; his father selling his business after Kristallnacht in November 1938; his father being taken to a concentration camp but released after about six months (he shows a photograph of his family taken a few months later); the repair of some of the synagogues in Berlin after the war; spending a year in Berlin before going to Shanghai, China; most of their belongings being stolen by the customs people; traveling by train through Poland and Russia to get the Shanghai; being too young to remember many details about the trip; setting in the Chinese quarter that was occupied by the Japanese; the Jews being restricted to about four city blocks; his father having a number of different jobs and his mother cooking on a small outdoor hibachi; the food shortage; attending school and learning Chinese and improving his English; attending a plumbing school and working as an apprentice in a pharmacy; the Jewish community managing fairly well; receiving information from a Russian radio station; learning about the concentration camps after the war; the war ending; his family receiving help from the HIAS in 1948 to go to the United States; settling in San Francisco, CA, where his father became a janitor and his mother worked as household help; and his message that one must not forget.
    Interviewee
    Gerhard Levy
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Levy, Gerhard.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Gerhard Levy 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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