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Oral history interview with Frank Hyde

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.89.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0706

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    Oral history interview with Frank Hyde

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Frank Hyde (né Pekarek), born August 8, 1921 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), discusses his family; the German takeover of Czechoslovakia; doing forced labor; being assigned to a unit that emptied Jewish belongings from apartments and stored them in a synagogue in a suburb of Prague; having to wear a Jewish star and to obey a nightly curfew; getting married to Georgine Feldman in October 1941; being deported in March 1942 to Theresienstadt, where he stayed until September 1944; being sent to Auschwitz in an open box car; the selections; being in Auschwitz from September 28th to December 28th; being transported to a camp where he worked on a machine producing casings; being placed on a train heading east on April 7, 1945; escaping from the train when it stopped during its journey; returning to Prague; and his life after the war with his wife Georgine.
    Interviewee
    Frank Hyde
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2013 May 04

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital files : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hyde, Frank.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Frank Hyde in Brooklyn, NY on May 4, 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 08:04:24
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