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Oral history interview with Hans Levy

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.604 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0604

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    Oral history interview with Hans Levy

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hans Levy discusses his childhood in Halle, Germany; the family's moves to Dresden and Berlin; his early memories of antisemitism; his father's business in Berlin failing because of the anti-Jewish boycott in 1933; a family friend who was an SS officer who sheltered his family after Kristallnacht in November 1938; the family's decision to flee; their failure to obtain visas in numerous countries; the family getting passage to Shanghai, China; their arrival in Shanghai; his experiences in the Hong Kew ghetto; various business activities he was involved with, trading and reselling, and his involvement with coffee roasting; his father's death in 1945; his marriage; his immigration with his wife to the United States; his work in San Francisco, CA; obtaining a loan from Hebrew Free Loans; his eventual success as the largest notions wholesaler in the country; and the return trip he made with his family to Shanghai.
    Interviewee
    Hans Levy
    Date
    interview:  2002 December 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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Levy, Hans.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hans Levy on December 9, 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 08:45:58
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