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Oral history interview with Harry Kiefer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.703 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0703

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    Oral history interview with Harry Kiefer

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Kiefer's childhood in Krefeld, Germany, anti-Jewish persecution that began in 1933 and increased in the ensuing years, and how the Jewish community in Krefeld adapted. He discusses his father's liquidation of the family assets in order to emigrate from Germany to the United States, and their relative good fortune at emigrating early in 1938 and having the financial means to re-establish themselves in a new country. Mr. Kiefer describes the family life's in Oakland, California, attending school, being drafted and his education at the University of California. He discusses learning of the fate of many relatives on his father's side who perished during the Holocaust, and returning to Krefeld for reunions.
    Interviewee
    Harry Kiefer
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 15
    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 Harry Kiefer on November 15, 1990. The interview was received by the Archives Branch 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 08:46:28
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