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Oral history interview with Cecelia Perera

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.243.0025

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    Oral history interview with Cecelia Perera

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Cecilia Perera, born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), discusses the relations between Jews and non-Jews in Sarajevo before the war; being one of seven children of a religious family; the Italian occupation; living with her husband and 14-year-old son at the time of the occupation; her husband’s olive oil factory; the fate of her family members during the war; going with her family to Italy (November 1943 until 1947); living in Bari and then Torino; immigrating to the United States after her son received a scholarship to Massachusetts Institute of Technology; working as a seamstress; her sister who survived Bergen-Belsen; and two of her siblings who live in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Cecelia Perera
    Date
    interview:  1985 April 28
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Perera, Cecelia.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    One Generation After
    Provenance
    The interview with Cecelia Perera was conducted on April 28, 1985, by One Generation After, a Boston-based group of children of Holocaust survivors, for the One Generation After oral history project. The copy of the interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 13, 1991
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