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Oral history interview with Richard Teig

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.386.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0834

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    Oral history interview with Richard Teig

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Richard Otto Teig, born on November 5, 1924 in Essen, Germany, describes his parents who were born in Poland; his sister, Claire, who was two years younger; his father’s service in the Austrian Army during World War I; his father’s furniture business, which was closed on Kristallnacht; attending the Jewish public school and seeing a Rabbi after school for Jewish education; playing with his many cousins; his parents concerns in the late 1930s and being sent with his sister to Holland by train on January 20, 1939 without a permit; the couple who accepted Claire in their home and hid her when the Germans invaded; being placed with other boys in a camp in North Holland and receiving an education; the beginning of the war and having to relocate five times; going to Emmen, Netherlands in December 1942; attending school to learn about machines and working in a bakery; how on December 25, 1942 the SS lined them up and put them on a train to Westerbork; working for a farmer and later working on a narrow-gauge railroad; joining the Dutch underground and helping prisoners escape on the railroad; carrying messages back and forth between underground members; his parents who were able to flee to Belgium in May 1939, then unoccupied France, and then across the Pyrenees to Barcelona; being liberated from Westerbork on April 13, 1945 by the Canadians; hitch-hiking to his parents in Madrid, stopping off to visit his sister and viewing signs in Paris that said “Kill the last Jews”; his sister, who flew to Madrid; immigrating to the US; working in the diamond business; getting married on January 23, 1955; and his children.
    Interviewee
    Richard Teig
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2015 October 02

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Teig, Richard, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Richard Teig on October 2, 2015.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:05:06
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