Overview
- Interview Summary
- Hildegard Lee (née Hildegard Enrike Rossman), born April 13, 1928 in Bickenbach, Hesse, Germany, describes her family life prior to and during the war; her father’s illness, which made him wheelchair-bound; how despite his disability her father was still able to manage his hardware store; the Nazi regime’s regimentations; how her father was taken from their home by the Nazis in 1943 and institutionalized in Goddelau, where he died a few months later; her relatives’ suspicion that he was murdered because he was considered nonproductive; the deprivations the family suffered after the war; her apprenticeship and subsequent employment in an office in Darmstadt, Germany; working for a restitution agency; marrying and immigrating in 1952 to the United Sates; and being granted American citizenship in 1956.
- Interviewee
- Hildegard Lee
- Interviewer
- Catherine Lee
- Date
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interview:
2010 April 21
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Catherine Lee
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 sound cassette (60 min.).
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer Catherine Lee conducted the interview with her aunt Hildegard Lee in Mystic, CT on April 21, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 2010.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:18:57
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