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Oral history interview with Daniel Levey

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.380 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0380

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    Oral history interview with Daniel Levey

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    Interview Summary
    Daniel Levey, born on April 24, 1925 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, discusses his Sephardic family; speaking Ladino at home; childhood memories of pre-war life; poverty; anti-Jewish animosity from Muslims; his father, a tailor, served in World War I under the Ottoman Empire; the Nazis attacking in April 1941; forced labor at a military camp in Novus Sarajevo; assignment to a skilled labor brigade because of electrical experience, avoiding registration by the Nazis; ceasing to wear the star; traveling to Mostar to find family; working for Tito’s partisans for a few months in 1942; his arrest and imprisonment at Mamula, an Italian prison, for seven months; his release; joining fellow Jews in Rab; kitchen assignment aiding his survival; liberation in September 1943; working in a hospital; living post-war in Italy; immigrating to Canada in 1948; and immigrating to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Daniel Levey
    Interviewer
    Patricia Rich
    Date
    interview:  2008 April 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:38:15
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