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Oral history interview with Arnold Benjamin

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.596 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0596

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    Oral history interview with Arnold Benjamin

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Arnold Benjamin discusses his family during the Holocaust based on his parents' memories, because Mr. Benjamin himself was born in 1935; the family's life in Berlin, Germany; his father going into hiding during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and avoiding arrest by the Nazi officers who arrived at the home; the family's decision to flee to Shanghai; the family's voyage by sea; their arrival in Shanghai; their experiences in the Hong Kew ghetto, where they often endured difficult and unhygienic circumstances; his father's work; his education in a school financed by an unidentified Sephardic Jew; his bar-mitzvah; the family's immigration to Israel after the war; their long journey and life in a refugee camp in Haifa; their economic difficulties; the family's return to Berlin in 1952 where his father began a wholesale business; his immigration to the United States in 1954; his military service in Frankfurt, Germany; his family's move from Berlin to New York and San Francisco; and his marriage and family.
    Interviewee
    Arnold Benjamin
    Interviewer
    Sue Siegel
    Date
    interview:  2002 December 18
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Arnold Benjamin on December 18, 2002. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in September 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 08:45:55
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