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Oral history interview with Edith Gerda Boas

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.907 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0907

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    Oral history interview with Edith Gerda Boas

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edith Boas discusses her childhood and young adulthood in Berlin, Germany; her memories of World War I; her studies in photography; her mother's death in 1935; her marriage of convenience in 1935; her father' death in 1937; her husband's move to Shanghai, China; her life in Berlin during the war; working in a factory from 1941-1943; escaping an SS round-up in March 1943; finding shelter with former neighbors for a year; being able to move around in relative freedom; being informed upon and having to flee; living with a former non-Jewish factory worker until the end of the war; moving to France with her war-time boyfriend; being arrested for being German; being incarcerated in several French prisons; her release; her experiences living in France; her immigration to the United States, where she was reunited with her sister in San Francisco, CA; and her life and career as a photographer.
    Interviewee
    Edith G. Boas
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  2004 March 03
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Boas, Edith Gerda.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Edith Gerda Boas on March 3, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
    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 08:47:25
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