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Oral history interview with Rabbi Theodore Alexander

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.508 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0508

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    Oral history interview with Rabbi Theodore Alexander

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rabbi Theodore (Ted) Alexander discusses his childhood in Berlin, Germany; his family life and Jewish education; his memories of anti-Semitism and Hitler's rise to power; the boycott of Jewish stores; the family's attempt failed attempts to leave Germany; Kristallnacht; hiding with his father to evade capture and arrest; removing the Torahs from the burned synagogue; the family's flight to Shanghai; his work with E.D. Sasson Banking Company and his social life in Shanghai; the resumption of his rabbinical studies and his ordination in 1943; the Japanese occupation of Shanghai;the family's move to the Hong Kew ghetto; memories of General Ghoya, who oversaw the ghetto; the end of the war; his marriage; obtaining an affidavit from his sister who had been living in Chicago; deciding with his wife to leave for the United States; arriving in San Francisco in 1947 on Yom Kippur, which he celebrated using the Torah he had rescued from the Berlin synagogue;his work and family life; serving as a rabbi part-time in several Bay Area congregations; becoming a full time rabbi at Congregation B'nai Emunah in 1968; the emigration of his parents; his political activism and his work in the civil rights movement.
    Interviewee
    Rabbi Theodore Alexander
    Interviewer
    Hilde Gattmann
    Date
    interview:  2002 May 22
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Rabbi Theodore Alexander on May 22, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
    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 08:45:30
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