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Oral history interview with Ralph Dreike

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.675 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0675

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    Oral history interview with Ralph Dreike

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ralph Dreike discusses his childhood in Augsburg, Germany; being the child of an interfaith couple, with a Jewish father and Catholic mother; being raised as a Catholic; the anti-Semitism he encountered from a teacher after the Nazi rise power in 1933; his father's arrest in 1934; his transfer to a Catholic boarding school where he was not persecuted because his father was Jewish; the effects anti-Jewish laws had on his father's business; the Nazi takeover of his school; the harassment he experienced; his parents' decision to send to the United States; his trip by ship to New York and then by train to San Francisco; the relief from persecution he felt; his experiences in Homewood Terrace, where he stayed until he was placed with a Catholic foster family; his education; being labeled an enemy alien once the United States entered the war in 1941; his service in the United States Army in the Pacific; learning that his mother had been in hiding in a convent and his father had been incarcerated in a concentration camp; his marriage; his Jewish wife's conversion to Catholicism; and his life and family in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Ralph Dreike
    Interviewer
    Elena Schulman
    Date
    interview:  2003 February 06
    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
    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 Ralph Dreike on February 6, 2003. 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 08:46:20
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