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Oral history interview with Jacob Harari

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.830 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0830

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    Oral history interview with Jacob Harari

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Harari's childhood in Ludmir, Poland (now Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi, Ukraine) and his memories of the arrival of Nazi troops in 1941. Mr. Harari describes the family's move to a ghetto, his detention during an anti-Jewish action, and his experiences while living with his family in underground hiding places until the end of the war. Mr. Harari discusses his life in Poland after the war, and his assumed identity as a Christian while in school. He describes his family's immigration to Israel, and Mr. Harari's decision in 1952 to pursue an engineering degree in the United States, where he married in 1959 and settled.
    Interviewee
    Jacob Harari
    Date
    interview:  1990 May 01
    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 Jacob Harari on May 1, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 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 08:47:05
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