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Oral history interview with Edith Hylton

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.631 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0631

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    Oral history interview with Edith Hylton

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Hylton's childhood in Bocholt, Germany and the changes that began in 1933 after the Nazi regime rose to power, including her father's loss of job and death. Ms. Hylton describes attending a Jewish business school in Switzerland and traveling to England, and how those experiences caused her to view the situation for Jews in Germany with concern, and led her to file for a visa to the United States. She discusses her family's move to Berlin, and the hardships that befell her family when her mother and stepfather were arrested for attempted smuggling and her stepfather was sent to Buchenwald. Ms. Hylton remembers Kristallnacht, the urgency of obtaining a visa in order to facilitate her stepfather's release, and her visit to the consul of the Dominican Republic. She describes her family's move to England, her success in obtaining a visa for the United States, and moving to New York in 1939.
    Interviewee
    Edith Hylton
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1990 April 02
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Edith Hylton on April 2, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 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 08:46:08
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