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Oral history interview with Antonio Serri

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.390.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0838

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    Oral history interview with Antonio Serri

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Antonio Serri, born October 8, 1928 in Venice, Italy, describes his family; his older sister and two younger brothers; how his father moved for work to New York City after Antonio was born; being raised by his mother and his grandmother; his grandmother, who directed the household and was his biggest influence; growing up Catholic; his Jewish and non-Jewish friends; the German occupation in 1941; the general fear of the Germans; the community’s mixed feelings about Mussolini; the numerous Venetian Jewish women who were sent to concentration camps; fixing old guns for the partisans; being saved by his grandmother during a roundup of suspected resisters; his grandmother hiding six Jewish men overnight before they escaped from Italy; working for 18 months at the German arsenal; going to the US in 1946; living in Greenwich, CT, where his father was a butler for a wealthy family; serving in the Korean War; his grandmother’s death in Italy circa 1950; getting married; working for a family friend from Venice for 10 years in the light fixture business; and visiting Venice a few times with his wife.
    Interviewee
    Antonio Serri
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2015 October 06

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Serri, Antonio, 1928-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Antonio Serri on October 6, 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 08:05:07
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