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Oral history interview with Leo Weshler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.889 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0889

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    Oral history interview with Leo Weshler

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describe Mr. Weshler's childhood in Vienna, Austria; his experiences with antisemitism while in school; his memories of the Anschluss in March 1938; and the resultant anti-Jewish boycotts and prohibitions that Jews experienced. Mr. Weshler describes the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938, his encounter with Adolph Eichmann, and his escape from deportation to Dachau because of his work with emigration. He discusses the family's immigration to Shanghai; the hardships of life there; his work and life experiences, including his father's death from leukemia; and the Japanese domination of the Hong Kew ghetto, presided over by General Goya. Mr. Weshler describes the end of World War II, and the family members attempts to immigrate to the United States. He discusses his return to Vienna in December 1949 to await his visa to the United States and his impressions of the city; his work with the Joint Distribution Committee in Vienna, his immigration to the United States in 1951, and his family life and career.
    Interviewee
    Leo Weshler
    Interviewer
    Hanna Silver
    Date
    interview:  1992 December 01
    interview:  1997 February 19
    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
    4 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Leo Weshler on December 1, 1992 and February 19, 1997. 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 08:47:24
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