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Oral history interview with George Field

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.452 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0452

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    Oral history interview with George Field

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    Interview Summary
    George Field was born was born George Feldmaier on June 21, 1922 in Budapest, Hungary to Alader Fedlmaier, a textile merchant, and Charlotte Katz Feldmaier, a housewife. Mrs. Feldmaier died when Mr. Field was 17, and Mr. Field's father was soon after drafted into the Hungarian army. Mr. Field was captured in 1943 and served in a German labor camp, a Russian labor camp, and a German engineering firm until his liberation. After the war ended, Mr. Field lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany. He met and married his wife, Julia Adler, a survivor of Auschwitz, while still in Germany, and they immigrated to the United States in 1948.

    The Fields had two sons. The family settled first in New York, and in 1952 moved to Sonoma County, California where the Fields operated a small poultry farm. They purchased a delicatessen in San Francisco, Label's, which they operated from 1957 to 1961. Mr. Field attended San Francisco State University, and obtained a real estate broker's license. He formed T&R Investments and was actively involved in real estate investments in San Francisco. His wife Julia died in 1997 and Mr. Field retired a few years later.
    Interviewee
    George Field
    Interviewer
    Emily Silverman
    Date
    interview:  1990 June 12
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with George Field on June 12, 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 08:45:19
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