Antisemitism
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Fred Wahl, 1984 April 14
Interview covers life experiences in Poland in the early 1930s, increasing antisemitism. Escaped to Cuba in 1936 and then came to America. Joined the US Army, experience of the war from the army perspective. Reuniting with his sister, only surviving member of his family. Experience in postwar America and attitudes toward America, family and Jewish organizations.
Oral History Interview with Henry Goldsmith, 1981 April 18
Henry Goldsmith discusses work with partisans, life during the war. getting cought by the Gestapo multiple times and escaping.
Oral History Interview with Irving Schaffer, 1985 June 2
Interview covers prewar experiences in Czechoslovakia, talks of the insistent antisemitism he experienced, smuggling food to the ghetto, life in the camps, Dachua and Auschwitz.
Oral History Interview with J. Harold Saks, 1977 June 6
Oral History Interview with Jack Weil, 1986 April 1
Topics covered- Jack Weil came to Denver in 1928 as a garter salesman. Business enterprises, store ownership and in particular selling Western wear, he was the CEO and founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear. Talks a little bit about prejudice.
Oral History Interview with Jacob Seewald, 1982 March 10
Interview describes pre-war life, Poland’s reaction to the rise of Nazism, people being rounded up for forced labor camps- airplane factory, logging. Experiences in camps in Germany, mental conditions and cruelty. Adjusting to life in America.
Oral History Interview with Joseph Mosko, 1979 December 27
Topics covered: Allied Jewish Federation and involvement in several other Jewish organizations (see agents), brief background, Denver Jewish community, experiences at University of Denver, War effort at home.
Oral History Interview with Judy Urman, 1981 October 14
IInterview covers her pre-war life in Germany, gamily owned a burlap sack factory. Talks about Kristallnacht and anti-Semitism in Germany between 1933 and 1940 when she fled to Shanghai, China to survive.
Oral History Interview with Miriam Miklin, 1984 October 10
Interview covers life experiences from before WWII in Poland and through her entire experience in the Holocaust. Miriam and her two sisters were the only surviving members of their family. After the war they tried to go home, stopping at a town 30km away and sensing the hostility toward them they left. Later the same evening there was a pogrom where 60 young Jewish survivors were murdered. They were too afraid to go home after that and left for Czech.
Oral History Interview with Rabbi Israel Rosenfeld, 1981 August 12
Rabbi Rosenfeld is a Czechoslovakian born Holocaust survivor. The oral history covers his pre-war and war-time experiences especially when he was interned at Auschwitz. Also talks about his post-war adjustment and resettlement, ending up in Denver, CO.