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Oral history interview with Peter Kory

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.50.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0689

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    Oral history interview with Peter Kory

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Peter Kory, born in 1931 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his birthplace; immigrating to Brussels, Belgium with his parents when he was one year old; the German invasion of Belgium; his father’s arrest as an enemy alien by the Allied forces; leaving Belgium for France with his mother as a refugee; searching for information about his father; learning his father was in a prison camp in southern France; bribing the guards to get his father out of prison; living under an assumed identity in Toulouse and Mane, France; how his family made ends meet in Mane; their attempted escape from France through the Pyrenees; losing his parents in the forest and returning to Mane; his parents’ arrest; living under an assumed identity in hiding with a French noble family in Auriac, France; daily life in Auriac; running messages for the resistance; the role his rescuers played in the resistance; the German occupation of Auriac; living with German soldiers who were billeted in their house; liberation; being labeled a Jewish war orphan; legal battles between his new French family and Jewish organizations; living in a Jewish orphanage; his feelings about Zionism and Orthodoxy; learning the fate of his parents; being contacted by an aunt in the United States; choosing to immigrate to the United States rather than Israel; and adjusting to postwar life in the US.
    Interviewee
    Peter Kory
    Interviewer
    Rebecca Dillmeier
    Date
    interview:  2013 March 28

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kory, Peter, 1931-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Rebecca Dillmeier, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Peter Kory by telephone on March 28, 2013.
    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 08:04:19
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