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Oral history interview with Joanna Hochman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.515 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0515

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    Oral history interview with Joanna Hochman

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mrs. Hochman's family and childhood in Vienna, Austria, her increasing awareness of antisemitism and fears for her family's future, and her brother's successful emigration with his family to Argentina. Mrs. Hochman discusses the Anschluss of March 1938, her attempts to find means to emigrate, her success in obtaining visas for Uruguay, and the events of Kristallancht and her husband's arrest. Mrs. Hochman describes the release of her husband, the complicated financial arrangements they needed to make to emigrate, and their eventual immigration to Uruguay in January 1939. Mrs. Hochman discusses the fate of her mother, who refused to leave Europe and was eventually transported to Auschwitz, where she perished. She describes her life in Uruguay, her family life, including marriages, divorces, remarriages and children, her relocation to Argentina, where she lived for 22 years, and her eventual immigration to the United States in 1961.
    Interviewee
    Joanna Hochman
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  2002 October 16
    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
    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 Joanna Hochman on October 16, 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 08:45:31
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