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Oral history interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640

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    Oral history interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Philippi's childhood in Berlin, Germany, his memories of antisemitism when Hitler rose to power, the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938, and his father arrest and imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mr. Philippi describes being smuggled to Holland and placed in camps in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, his reunion with his parents and their voyage on the ship St. Louis toward Cuba in 1939. He describes the passengers being detained by the Cubans, denied entry to Cuba and the United States, and the ship's return to Hamburg. Mr. Philippi discusses the coalition of countries who agreed to take these passengers, his family's return to Holland, their successful immigration to Chile during the war, and his immigration to the United States in 1964.
    Interviewee
    Hans W. Philippi
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1998 September 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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi on September 2, 1998. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 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 08:46:10
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