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Oral history interview with Izu Klepper

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.518 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0518

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    Oral history interview with Izu Klepper

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Klepper's childhood in Jassy (Iasi), Romania and in Transnistria; his memories of the enforcement of anti-Jewish laws in 1940, including the wearing of the Star of David; being forced to leave public school; the terrible pogrom that occurred in June 1941; witnessing his father's beating; the shooting of Jewish civilians; his memories of air attacks; Romanian police taking Jewish teenage boys from their homes and putting them on death trains, so called that because their occupants were sealed in cattle cars, and transported back and forth across the country, during exceedingly hot weather with neither water nor ventilation; his desire to leave Romania after the war; the lengthy waiting period of 15 years; the deaths of his parents and twin brother in the interim; and his immigration to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Izu Klepper
    Date
    interview:  2002 October 02
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Klepper, Izu.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Izu Klepper on October 2, 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 08:45:32
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