Oral history interview with Hurst Sommer
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Hilde Gattmann
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hurst Sommer on November 4, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Sommer, Hurst.
- Hilde Gattmann
- Hurst Sommer
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--China--Shanghai.
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Shanghai (China)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Israel.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Palestine.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Brothers.
- Jews, German--China--Shanghai.
- Jews--Poland--Wrocław.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral History
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