Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Claire Fund

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Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Claire Fund

Date:

2005

Interviewer:

Tannenbaum, Karen

Interviewee:

Fund, Claire, 1949-

Description:

Claire Fund recounts how her Jewish parents survived World War II. Her father Charles Fund and his sister Esther were born in Yeremsha, Poland, in the early 1900s. Charles trained as an engineer in France, joined a branch of the French Army, and ended up in Glasgow, Scotland. There he met his wife, Aurelia Frenkel of Vienna, who had escaped Austria on foot in 1939. Esther, a dentist who had returned home to practice, hid in a farmers barn for more than a year to evade the Germans. Once it was safe for her to come out of hiding, she joined the Free Czechoslovakian Army, where she met her husband, Miroslav Kerner.

Collection Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories

Contributing Institution:

College of Charleston Libraries

Media Type:

Oral Histories

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Fund, Claire – Interviews

Topical Subject:

Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Holocaust survivors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- Jewish, Holocaust survivors -- Massachusetts -- History, Holocaust survivors -- Canada –- History, and Jews –- Immigrants -- United States History

Geographic Subject:

Lowcountry

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Shelving Locator:

MSS 1035-304

Date Digital:

2011-05

Digitization Specifications:

Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.

Internet Media Type:

application/pdf;audio/mpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Copyright © Jewish Heritage Collection

Access Information:

For more information, contact Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston SC 29424.

Admin ID:

220760