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Oral history interview with Werner G. Loeb

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.920 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0920

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    Oral history interview with Werner G. Loeb

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    Interview Summary
    Werner Loeb describes his childhood in Steinheim, Germany; its small Jewish community; his first memories of antisemitism in school; the forced sale of his father's business; his memories of Kristallnacht; his and his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald; his experiences doing forced labor; the forced relocation of his brother to a hospital; his brother's death; his and his parents' deportation to Theresienstadt; his experiences at the camp; his participation in the filming of the Nazi propaganda film, "Hitler Gives a City to the Jews"; his father's death in Theresienstadt; his deportation to a forced labor camp in Wulkow; his final return to Theresienstadt; his liberation; his mother's despair after the war; their immigration to the United States in 1949; his mother's suicide; and his life, family and career in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Werner G. Loeb
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 05
    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
    3 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 Werner G. Loeb on July 5, 1998. 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 08:47:29
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