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Oral history interview with Barbara Shilo

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.545 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0545

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    Oral history interview with Barbara Shilo

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Barbara Shilo discusses her childhood in Kassel, Germany; her family life; her anxiety over being the only Jewish student in her class; the changes she experienced as the Nazis came to power, including having to change to a Jewish school; increased antisemitism; her memories of the parades; her father's decision to take the family in 1933 to Eger, Czechoslovakia (now Cheb, Czech Republic), where they remained for five years; her experiences while her family waited for visas in Prague, Czech Republic and Brussels, Belgium; immigrating to the United States in September 1938; the journey on the ship; her feelings of marginalization as a refugee and separation from the Polish Jews already living in New York; her education in a public school, the culture shock she experienced, and her emotional reactions to the changes; her marriage and children; her evolution as an artist and writer; and the ways in which her wartime experiences inform her artwork.
    Interviewee
    Barbara Shilo
    Date
    interview:  2000 September 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
    5 videocassettes (Hi8) : sound, color ; 8mm.

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shilo, Barbara.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Barbara Shilo on September 9, 2000. 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 08:45:41
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