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Oral history interview with Renata Polt

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.722 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0722

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    Oral history interview with Renata Polt

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    Interview Summary
    Renata Polt describes her childhood in Ústí, Czechoslovakia; her family's religious life; her family's decision to leave for Lucerne, Switzerland in September, 1938; her experiences in Switzerland; her family's journey to Cuba in the spring of 1939; her experiences there; immigrating to the United States in the fall of 1940; her education; her life in America; her understanding as a child of the events of the Holocaust; the fates of other family members.
    Interviewee
    Renata Polt
    Interviewer
    Gene Ayres
    Date
    interview:  1996 February 05
    interview: 
    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 Renata Polt on February 5, 1996. 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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