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Oral history interview with Herbert Barasch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.618 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0618

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    Oral history interview with Herbert Barasch

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Herbert Barasch discusses his childhood in Vienna, Austria; his parents' decision to leave Vienna after the Anschluss in March 1938; their move to Antwerp, Belgium; their life in Antwerp; their move to Brussels in 1941, where his father worked for the German occupiers; his round up with his mother in October 1942; their release before deportation; being hidden through underground organizations in a Catholic orphanage outside of Brussels; being moved periodically to evade capture by Nazi authorities; his parents' hiding in a different location; his reunion with his parents after the war; his reluctance to let go of the Catholicism he had been practicing while hidden; the family's return to Brussels; and their immigration to the United States in 1948.
    Interviewee
    Herbert Barasch
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 08
    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 Herbert Barasch on November 8, 1990. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in April 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 08:46:03
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