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Oral history interview with Norman Miller

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.61.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0693

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    Oral history interview with Norman Miller

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    Interview Summary
    Norman A. Miller (né Müller), born in 1924 in Tann in der Rohn, Germany, his family’s history in Tann; his father, who was a teacher; his sister Suse; his family’s move to Nuremberg in 1930; being raised Orthodox; the close-knit Jewish community; attending high school in Fürth; the Nazi marches in Nuremberg and not being affected by them; his memories of Kristallnacht when the Nazis destroyed their apartment; moving to another home; the arrest of his father and imprisonment in Dachau; the release of his father; going with family friends to England; staying with Rabbi Munk in London for three days before moving to a home for refugee boys; living in various locations in England; working as a welder; his life in England and the aerial bombings; corresponding with his family during the first years of the war and receiving the last letter from his family in May 1941; being classified as a friend alien; volunteering for the British Army; going into the infantry, but being placed in the intelligence service because he knew German; being sent to Germany; being in Hamburg when the war ended; helping to detain Arthur Seyss-Inquart; spending two years after the war in Germany with the army; finding out in May 1945 that all his family had been killed in a camp in Latvia; going to Canada with some friends and eventually went to New York; his aunt and uncle in Washington Heights in New York; getting married to Inge Sommer, who was also born in Germany; their two sons; his wife’s death in 1996; and finding several of his father’s books when he returned to Nuremberg in recent years.
    Interviewee
    Miller, Norman Albert
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2013 April 15
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital files : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Norman Miller in Washington, DC on April 15, 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 08:04:20
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