Reminiscences of Harold Adler : oral history, 2007.

Biographical Note

Co-Owner, Transocean Trading Company (Geneva) and Duty Free Shoppers (New York)

Scope and Contents

Personal background: childhood in Berlin, family history, Jewish life under Nazis, family migration to Paris in 1930s, anti-Semitism in Europe 20s-30s, migration to the United States, WWII military service: D-Day, French Resistance, liberation of Paris; career: incentive industry, duty free catalogue shopping, product line, Transocean Trading Company, business problems; Duty Free Shoppers: early history, Tourists International, buy-out of Transocean Trading Company and Harold Adler/Stewart Damon-owned Duty Free Shoppers, duty free shop in Mexico City; Interactions: Charles F. Feeney, Jeffrey Mahlstedt, Danielle J. Feeney.

Subjects

• Adler, Harold, 1924---Interviews.
• Antisemitism--Europe.
• Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization)
• Cross-border shopping.
• DFS Galleria (Firm)
• Farber, Myron, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Transocean Trading Company.

Access Conditions

Copyright held by: The Trustees of Columbia University of the City of New York and The Atlantic Philanthropies, 2007.