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Oral history interview with George Upton

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.249 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0249

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    Oral history interview with George Upton

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    George Upton (né Gunter Apt), born in 1922 as in Eldagsen, Germany, discusses his Jewish parents Benjamin and Henny Apt; attending a non-Jewish school; having a Bar Mitzvah; Hitler’s rise to power and the local changes; the open support for Hitler among their neighbors; the attack on his parents’ drapery shop; Kristallnacht; being snet to Buchenwald; witnessing murders; the imprisonment of individuals in Buchenwald for being homosexual, Catholic, Roma, and political dissenters; his mother getting him released on the condition that he leave Germany; the Australian Jewish Welfare Guardian Society bringing him to Australia; saying a final goodbye to his parents; sailing on a ship called Jarvis Bay; arriving in Fremantle and traveling to Melbourne; changing his name to George Upton; working on dairy farms; receiving letters from his parents until they were moved to the Warsaw ghetto in 1944; getting married and moving to Melbourne; working in health food and pet food production and retail; visiting Germany in 1980; his village featuring in a history book: Wir sind Deutsche mit jüdischer Religion: Geschichte der Juden in Eldagsen und Springe, Bennigsen, Gestorf, Völksen by Hans Christian Rohde. [He shows photos of his family and village at the end of the recording.]
    Interviewee
    George Upton
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  2002 October 31

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Upton, George.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview with George Upton on October 31, 2002, in Melbourne, Australia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tape of the interview in April 2003.
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    2023-11-16 08:30:29
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