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Oral history interview with Bernard Samuel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.489 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0489

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    Oral history interview with Bernard Samuel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Bernard Samuel discusses his childhood in Cherna, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine); his family life; his religious upbringing; his education in a yeshiva and at a trade school; the changes he experienced when Hungary occupied his region in early 1943; the effects of the new antisemitic laws on both the Jewish and non-Jewish population; his decision to move to Romania; his service in a labor brigade in the Hungarian Army; the conditions; the fairness of the Czech officers; learning about the death camps in Poland; traveling and being hidden by local people; his return to Cherna; liberation of the region by the Soviet Army; his experiences post-liberation, including his near-arrest by the Soviets, his flight to Romania, his work as a guide for refugees, and his decision to go to the displaced persons camps in Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1948; his life in the US; and the fates of other family members.
    Interviewee
    Bernard Samuel
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1989 February 09
    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
    3 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Samuel, Bernard.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Bernard Samuel on February 9, 1989. 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 08:45:25
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