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Oral history interview with Hurst Sommer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.533 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0533

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    Oral history interview with Hurst Sommer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hurst Sommer discusses his childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); his time in a Jewish children's home; his memories of Kristallnacht; his family's decision to leave for Shanghai, China in May 1939; the journey to Shanghai; his experiences in Shanghai; his family's move to Palestine; and moving from Palestine to New York circa 1940 with his brother while his parents stayed behind.
    Interviewee
    Hurst Sommer
    Interviewer
    Hilde Gattmann
    Date
    interview:  2002 November 04
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sommer, Hurst.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hurst Sommer on November 4, 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 08:45:37
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