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Oral history interview with William Stern

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.611 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0611

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    Oral history interview with William Stern

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    William Stern discusses his childhood in Vienna, Austria; the changes he experienced after the Anschluss in March 1938, including violence and increased antisemitism; his escape to Yugoslavia after the war began in 1939; his deportation to a concentration camp after the German invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, and the conditions there; being transferred in June 1941 to a camp near Mostar; the conditions in the camp and the work he performed; his attempts to escape in June 1942 with his mother to Italian-occupied Split; their arrest; their transfer the next month to a concentration camp (Kupari) near Dubrovnik, where they remained until June 1943; the conditions in the camp, including the work he performed; their transfer to Rab; Italy's withdrawal in October 1943; the help he received from the partisans to avoid the Ustasi fascists; his year with the partisans; his reunion with his parents in February 1945; their transfer to a British displaced persons camp in Bari, Italy; his experiences there; their immigration to the United States in 1948; and his life in America.
    Interviewee
    William Stern
    Interviewer
    Sylvia Prozan
    Date
    interview:  2003 March 24
    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
    3 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Stern, William.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with William Stern on March 24, 2003. 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 08:46:01
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