Overview
- Interview Summary
- Peter Schur discusses his family's flight from Vienna, Austria following Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938 and their arrival in the United States on board the SS President Harding.
- Interviewee
- Dr. Peter Schur
- Interviewer
- Sarah-Sophia Minatti-Krauhs
- Date
-
interview:
2019 December 04
- Geography
-
creation:
Boston (Mass.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Schur
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MP3.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism--Austria. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish refugees--United States. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jews, Austrian--United States. Men--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Austria--Social conditions--20th century. United States--Emigration and immigration. Vienna (Austria) England--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Schur, Peter, 1933- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Peter Schur donated his oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2021. The interview was recorded as part of the Austrian Heritage Collection in December 4, 2019 in Boston, MA.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:09:33
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724149
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