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Oral history interview with John Salz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.875 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0875

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    Oral history interview with John Salz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    John Salz describes his childhood in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia (now Plzen, Czech Republic); his memories of the Anschluss in March 1938, when his family was visiting Austria; the absorption of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany; how his family's business was confiscated; his father's arrest and imprisonment; being placed on a Kindertransport to England in 1939; his father's flight to England several months later; the fae of his mother and sister who remained behind and perished in Auschwitz; moving with his father to Ireland; his isolation and the difficulties of living alone in a boarding house; their attempts to obtain visas to the United States; his voyage to the United States with his father in 1941; his father's psychotic breakdown shortly thereafter; being drafted into the United States military in 1943; his military service in Italy; being captured in a German ambush and liberated in 1945; his reunion with his father and brother in San Francisco; and his family and personal life in San Francisco.
    Interviewee
    John Salz
    Interviewer
    Hildegard Gattmann
    Anne G. Saldinger
    Date
    interview:  1995 May 22
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Salz, John--Interviews.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with John Salz on May 22, 1995. 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 08:47:20
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