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Oral history interview with Gerard Caspary

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.446 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0446

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    Oral history interview with Gerard Caspary

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Caspary's comfortable childhood in Frankfurt, Germany, and his early memories of the Nazi ascension to power, including the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933. Mr. Caspary recalls the family's move to France to escape the antisemitic Nazi regime, and his early life and schooling there. He describes the effect of the enforcement of antisemitic laws in France, including the wearing of the yellow star, and the dismay his teacher expressed at these events. Mr. Caspary talks about the round-up of the Jews in Paris, and, later that year, in October, of his parents' deportation to Drancy concentration camp. He discusses his experiences being hidden by neighbors and friends, first in Paris and then in Versailles. Mr. Caspary, whose parents never returned, recalls being sent for after the war ended by a relative in St. Louis, Missouri, his education in the United States, and his career as a professor at the University of California Berkeley.
    Interviewee
    Gerard Caspary
    Date
    interview:  1990 December 20
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Paris (France)
    Personal Name
    Caspary, Gerard.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gerard Caspary on December 20, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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 08:45:18
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