Interview with Charles Wampold Jr. of Montgomery, Alabama, whose maternal grandparents lived in Nazi Germany in 1939.

In 1923, Wampold's mother married his father in Montgomery, Alabama, while she was visiting relatives in the States. During this interview, conducted by Louisa Weinrib, Wampold recounts two trips he made to Germany, once with his mother in 1935, and again in 1988. From 1990 to 1992, Weinrib i...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/records/id/532
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Summary:In 1923, Wampold's mother married his father in Montgomery, Alabama, while she was visiting relatives in the States. During this interview, conducted by Louisa Weinrib, Wampold recounts two trips he made to Germany, once with his mother in 1935, and again in 1988. From 1990 to 1992, Weinrib interviewed five Jewish World War II veterans and nine Jews who were either Holocaust survivors or descendents of survivors. (The term "Holocaust survivor" is defined by the Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors as a "person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, and political policies of the Nazis and their Allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes refugees, people in hiding, etc.")