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Oral history interview with Willie Nowak

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.441 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0441

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    Oral history interview with Willie Nowak

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Willie Nowak, born on August 1, 1908 in Berlin, Germany, discusses experiencing antisemitism in school; being a member of Reichsbanner (a Social Democrat organization); traveling for business to Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland 1935 to 1937; his impressions of restrictions upon returning to Germany in 1937; Kristallnacht; traveling to Shanghai via ship from Italy with his fiancée Else Nowak and her two children; arrival, conditions, and forced labor overseen by the Japanese in Shanghai; scarcity of food; illness; violence of Japanese guards; and immigrating the United States in 1948.
    Interviewee
    Willie Nowak
    Interviewer
    Fred Stamm
    Date
    interview:  1981 February 05
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (60 min.).

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    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Nowak, Willie, 1908-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    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 08:38:37
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