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Oral history interview with Herman Gundersheimer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.869 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0869

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    Oral history interview with Herman Gundersheimer

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    Interview Summary
    Herman Gundersheimer, born in 1903 in Würzburg, Germany, discusses going to a Jewish school and his family; attending the University of Wurzburg and then the University of Munich; becoming the head of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt; the destruction of the museum in Kristallnacht 1938; being editor of the Jewish newspaper of Frankfurt; knowing about the rising antisemitism, but never thinking Kristallnacht could occur; getting his PhD before the Nazi movement; going to the United States; being aided by Quakers in the move; his family being able to emigrate; and adjusting to American life.
    Interviewee
    Herman Gundersheimer
    Interviewer
    Jerry Freimark
    Date
    interview:  1999 August 24
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound recording : WAV.

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. The interview is part of Project Kabed which was produced by Jerry M. Freimark between 1997-2012 and donated to Gratz College.
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