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Oral history interview with Herbert Wallace

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.886 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0886

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    Oral history interview with Herbert Wallace

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Wallace's childhood in Offenbach, Germany; his education and work as a nurse in a Jewish hospital; and the antisemitism he experienced in Nazi Germany. Mr. Wallace describes a raid by the SS in 1938 that he escaped by hiding, and his determination to leave Germany. He describes his family's escape to London in 1939 and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Mr. Wallace describes his life in America, his work as a nurse and his service in the United States Army during World War II as an X-ray technician.
    Interviewee
    Herbert Wallace
    Date
    interview:  1990 December 13
    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 Herbert Wallace on December 13, 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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