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Oral history interview with Claus Shelling

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.736 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0736

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    Oral history interview with Claus Shelling

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Claus Shelling discusses his childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); his assimilated family life; his education in a Catholic school; the changes he experienced after the rise of the Nazi Party, including increased antisemitism; his experiences on Kristallnacht, including the moment when one of the nuns took him by train to meet his parents in Berlin, Germany rather than letting him go home that night; living with his family in Berlin until they were able to leave in March 1939; the journey through Hamburg, Germany to London, England by airplane, then on a freighter to the United States; his life as a young immigrant in San Francisco, CA; the discrimination he experienced as a German; his efforts to assimilate into American culture; and his life after the war, his work, his family, and his journey to visit his hometown in 1978.
    Interviewee
    Claus Shelling
    Interviewer
    Cathy Miller
    Gina Margillo
    Beatrice Netter
    Date
    interview:  1991 December 11
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Shelling, Claus.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Claus Shelling on December 11, 1991. 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 08:46:36
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