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Oral history interview with Lewis Weil

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.887 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0887

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    Oral history interview with Lewis Weil

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Weil's childhood in Landau, Germany; the onset of antisemitism when Hitler rose to power; his escape to Amsterdam, Holland in 1938; and his immigration to the United States in September 1938. He discusses his experiences upon arrival; his sponsorship by a family in San Francisco; his education; and the antisemitism he faced in the United States. Mr. Weil describes the experiences of his parents and brother in Germany where they fled to Mannheim, his father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau, the family's internment in Gurs concentration camp in France, his father's death, and his mother's and brother's immigration to the United States in 1941.
    Interviewee
    Lewis Weil
    Date
    interview:  1990 June 12
    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
    Weil, Lewis.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lewis Weil on June 12, 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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