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Oral history interview with Anita Koralek

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.565 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0565

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    Oral history interview with Anita Koralek

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Koralek's childhood in Prague, her memories of antisemitism before Hitler rose to power, and the family's sense of danger once Nazi Germany controlled Prague. Ms. Koralek describes her engagement to be married on the day that Nazi Germany occupied Prague, the flight of her father, mother and sister from Prague, and her attempts to obtain a visa for her new husband and herself. She describes her husband's arrest and release, their success in fleeing to England, and learning of her husband's parents' deportation to Terezin (Theresienstadt) where they perished. Ms. Koralek discusses living in London, England during the war years, and the dangers she faced from air raids.
    Interviewee
    Anita Koralek
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1995 September 19
    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

    Geographic Name
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Personal Name
    Koralek, Anita.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Anita Koralek on September 19, 1995. 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 08:45:46
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