Oral history interview with Arthur Vamos and Ruth Haack Vamos

Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.335.2 | RG Number: RG-50.393.0001

Arthur Vamos and Ruth Haack Vamos, originally of Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) discuss their wartime experiences emigrating from Germany to Glasgow, Scotland in 1939 and then to the United States in 1946.

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Interviewee: Arthur Vamos
Ruth Vamos
Interviewer: Ms. Maureen Lighthall
Mr. Fred Lighthall
Date: interview: 1988
Language: English
Extent: 10 CDs.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Maureen Vamos Lighthall

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Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Topical Term: Jewish businesspeople--Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.
Men--Personal narratives.
Women--Personal narratives.
Geographic Name: Wrocław (Poland)
Glasgow (Scotland)
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Personal Name: Vamos, Arthur, 1911-2006.
Vamos, Ruth, 1913-2003.
Vamos, Maureen, 1941-
Corporate Name: Great Britain. Army.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Maureen Vamos Lighthall donated the oral history interview with her parents Arthur Vamos and Ruth Haack Vamos to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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Vamos family papers

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The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Arthur and Ruth Vamos, originally of Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), as they emigrated from Germany to Glasgow, Scotland in 1939 and to the United States in 1946. The collection includes biographical material such as identification papers, marriage certificates, and Arthur’s British Army papers; immigration documents; correspondence; restitution paperwork; photographs; and two publications.