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Oral history interview with Karel Langer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.773 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0773

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    Oral history interview with Karel Langer

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    Interview Summary
    The interviews describe Mr. Langer's childhood in Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, the subsequent loss of the family business, and their eviction from their home in 1941. Mr. Langer describes the removal of Jews from their town in January 1943; the family's deportation first to Terezin (Theresienstadt) and then to Auschwitz; his transfer, with his father and brother, to a work camp in Blechhammer in Upper Silesia in June 1944; and his mother's removal to Hamburg and then to Bergen-Belsen. He describes the death march he endured to Gross-Rosen concentration camp in January 1945, the death of his father on the march, his transfer with his brother to Buchenwald, and their liberation in April 1945. Mr. Langer discusses his ill health and that of his mother, his reunion with his brother and mother, and their return to Uhersky Brod. He describes his move to England for school in 1947, joining his brother who had immigrated in 1949 to Israel, and serving in the Israeli Army for two years before returning to England in 1953. Mr. Langer discusses his immigration to Canada, his mother's emigration in 1955, and their move in 1961 to San Francisco.
    Interviewee
    Karel Langer
    Date
    interview:  1991 June 20
    interview:  1991 February 28
    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 Karel Langer on February 28, 1991 and June 20, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 2004.
    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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