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Oral history interview with Herbert Broh

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.102 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0102

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    Oral history interview with Herbert Broh

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    Interview Summary
    Herbert Broh, born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, relates several experiences of abusive antisemitism by his friends and his teacher as well as his impressions of Kristallnacht; his family leaving Germany for Shanghai, China in April of 1939 to join family members already living on Seward Road in the Hongkew section of Shanghai, under Japanese occupation; being enrolled in the Kadoorie School and later a cheder; his Jewish education at the cheder and the Yeshiva Katana as well as the effect of his growing Orthodoxy on his life and his family; his family’s living conditions and life in Shanghai; being very happy there and being only dimly aware that other refugees had a more difficult existence; his father’s work for a Chinese factory managed by the Japanese; his mother’s work as a cook at the Komor Kindergarten; how after Pearl Harbor his family was evacuated to the Kadoorie School; the interactions between the Japanese and refugees; the events during and after the Japanese capitulation and the arrival of Chinese Nationalist and later American troops; witnessing the departure of the entire Mirrer Yeshiva to Canada in 1946; going with his family to the United States in 1947; his life in the US and his feelings about his years in Shanghai; and being a cantor in Sun City, California.
    Interviewee
    Hebert Broh
    Date
    interview:  1999 October 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Broh, Hebert, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Herbert Broh in Philadelphia, Pa., on October 15, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College in August 2003.
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    2023-11-16 08:36:32
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