Abstract
Reinhold Federmann was born in 1939 in Kischker, Yugoslavia. His father was a baker. Federmann was five years old when his family fled Kischker in 1944. He describes his journey from Kischker to Flattnitz Austria and his eventual placement in a refugee camp in Salfelden, Austria. His family was then placed with a farmer near Salzburg, Austria, where they stayed for four years. When the refugee camp in Salzburg dissolved in 1950, his family was placed in another camp in Maxglan, Austria, where they stayed for six years. Federman describes his journey to the U.S. in 1956, eventually ending up in Cleveland. He was not as active in the German community in his younger days, especially after marrying an American of German descent. However, today he is a regular attendee at the German American Cultural Center and German Central in the Cleveland area.
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Interviewee
Federmann, Reinhold (interviewee)
Interviewer
Welker, Michael (interviewer)
Project
Cleveland German-American Oral History Project
Date
6-5-2019
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
48 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Reinhold Federmann interview, 05 June 2019" (2019). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 195014.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1250
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