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Oral history interview with Luna Harrison

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.831 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0831

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    Oral history interview with Luna Harrison

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Harrison's childhood as part of a Turkish Sephardic Jewish family living in Holland. She describes early memories of antisemitic measures enacted by Nazi German occupiers, her family hiding other Jews in their home and how their Turkish citizenship delayed their own deportation to Westerbork until 1943. Ms. Harrison describes her family's transport to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944, the horrific conditions there, and their early release through an exchange of Turkish citizens for Germans. She discusses settling in Turkey after the war, and then moving to Holland, where she met her husband, an American soldier, in 1957. Ms. Harrison describes moving to Idaho, divorcing and settling in San Francisco, and reflects on how her experiences during the Holocaust led her to detach herself from her Jewish background.
    Interviewee
    Luna Harrison
    Date
    interview:  1990 July 17
    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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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Harrison, Luna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Luna Harrison on July 17, 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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