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Oral history interview with Hildegard Haymann

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.294.33 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0033

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    Oral history interview with Hildegard Haymann

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hilla Haymann (née Hildegard Haymann), born in Berlin, Germany, describes her upper-middle class family; her happy childhood; going to German schools until 1938 when they had to transfer to Jewish schools; how her brother belonged to a Zionist youth movement and in October 1938 left for Palestine; not being permitted to go to school on November 9, 1938; returning home by train and seeing a roundup of Jewish men and the synagogue burning; getting visas from Chile; how she was registered to go with a children’s illegal transport to Palestine via Holland; how she decided to go to Chile instead; how she and her father were mobilized to fortify their building’s bunker but were not allowed to take refuge there; departing for Chile on November 28, 1939; sailing on the Augustus from Geneva; how Pablo Neruda was also on the voyage; being sent to an agricultural settlement; eventually moving to Santiago, Chile; how her brother joined the Israeli Army and the Jewish Brigade and was sent to Rome, Italy for intelligence work; seeing her brother after 10 years apart; and how she never married.
    Interviewee
    Hildegard Haymann
    Interviewer
    Ximena Hinzpeter
    Date
    interview:  2009 September 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fundación Memoria Viva

    Physical Details

    Language
    Spanish
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 digital files : MOV.

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    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Haymann, Hildegard.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Fundación Memoria Viva donated the interview with Hildegard Haymann conducted September 1, 2009 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in May 2012. The interview is part of the Voces de la Shoá oral history collection.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:28:06
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