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Oral history interview with Don Felson

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.552 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0552

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    Oral history interview with Don Felson

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Don Felson discusses his childhood in Glubokie, Poland (now Hlybokaye, Belarus); his education; the town in which the family lived; the details of his daily life; the Soviet invasion in 1939; the German invasion in 1941; the changes he observed from 1939 to 1941; his selection for work in a Soviet POW camp; the liquidation of his hometown by the Germans in 1943; his decision to join the partisans with his older brother that year; the sabotages he performed with the partisans; the fates of his parents and other family members; his immigration to the United States in 1945; his life in San Francisco; the businesses he and his brother began; his service in the Korean War; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Don Felson
    Interviewer
    Ellen Szakal
    Date
    interview:  1996 August 07
    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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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Felson, Don.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Don Felson on August 7, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 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 08:45:43
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