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Oral history interview with Hans J. Arons

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.658 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0658

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    Oral history interview with Hans J. Arons

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    Interview Summary
    Hans Arons discusses his youth and young adulthood in Hannover, Germany; his education; the antisemitism he experienced before the war; the difficulties he experienced finding work after 1933; his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald in December 1936; his transfer to Sachsenhausen six months later for medical reasons; the work he performed in Sachsenhausen; his release in December 1938 contingent upon his emigration from Germany; his decision to go to Shanghai, China; the journey to Shanghai; his arrival in January 1939; the conditions in Shanghai; his experiences in Shanghai; the work he performed; the changes he observed after the Japanese occupation began; his immigration to the United States in 1947; his military service beginning in 1948; his life in San Francisco, California after the end of his service.
    Interviewee
    Hans J. Arons
    Interviewer
    Barbara Barer
    Linda Gary
    Ron Greene
    Patricia Kalman
    April Lee
    Yoor Rapaport
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 23
    interview:  1991 October 16
    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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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hans Arons on August 23, 1990 and October 16, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in July 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 08:46:15
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