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Oral history interview with Henri Hurwitz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.344.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0775

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    Oral history interview with Henri Hurwitz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Henri Hurwitz, born on March 28, 1934 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his family’s background and his early years in Berlin; his father’s Croix de guerre, awarded to him in 1935 for his actions in World War I; the circumstances under which his father applied for exit visas to Belgium in 1937; his family’s failed efforts to acquire legal resident status; receiving financial aid from relatives in South Africa; the 1939 arrival in Belgium of his grandmother, aunt, uncle, and cousin; attending a school in Uccle, Belgium and transferring to a Flemish school after the German invasion of Belgium in 1940; his father’s deportation to camp Saint Cyprien, then Gurs, and finally to Drancy, from which he never returned; a family friend who moved in and his black market activities; how he and his cousin were taken in by a Belgian woman in Ottignies and baptized as Catholics; a collaborator who reported the woman to the Gestapo and how the crisis was averted; his life in Ottignies; the liberation of Belgium; his studies in chemistry at the Université Libre de Belgique; meeting and later marrying his wife; and his cousin’s move to and life in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Henri Hurwitz
    Interviewer
    Peggy Frankston
    Date
    interview:  2014 October 31

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hurwitz, Henri, 1934-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Henri Hurwitz on October 31, 2014.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:04:46
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