Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Alan Peters oral history interview
- Dates:
- 1990 September 12
- Creators:
- Peters, Alan, Barer, Barbara, and Grant, John
- Abstract:
- This collection comprises one videotape of an oral history interview with Alan Peters conducted by the Holocaust Oral History Project on September 12, 1990.
- Containers:
- Cassette: Tauber Holocaust Library Archives
- Extent:
- 0.1 Linear feet comprising one videotape with a total running time of 2:36
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Alan Peters oral history interview - OHP.3880, Tauber Holocaust Library - JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection comprises one videotape of an oral history interview with Alan Peters conducted by Barbara Barer on behalf of the Holocaust Oral History Project on September 12, 1990. Alan Peters is a Holocaust survivor.
The interview describes Mr. Peters' childhood in Vienna, Austria; his family life; and the changes that he experienced after the Anschluss in March 1938. He describes his father's arrest in May 1938 and his experiences during and after Kristallnacht in November 1938. He discusses the decision to place him on the Kindertransport in 1939, his experiences living with an English family in Oxford, his education, his reunion with his parents in Vienna after the war, his emigration to Canada then to the United States, and his life in America.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Holocaust survivors -- United States
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Jewish families -- Austria
Jewish refugees -- England
Jews -- Persecutions -- Austria
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
Kristallnacht, 1938
World War, 1939-1945 -- England - Places:
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938
Canada -- Emigration and immigration
Oxford (England)
United States -- Emigration and immigration
Vienna (Austria)
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2012-06-27T10:22-0700
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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There are no restrictions to access for this collection.
- Terms of access:
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There are no restrictions to use for this collection.
- Preferred citation:
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Alan Peters oral history interview - OHP.3880, Tauber Holocaust Library - JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California
- Location of this collection:
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JFCS Holocaust Center2245 Post StreetSan Francisco, CA 94115, US
- Contact:
- (415) 449-3717