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Oral history interview with Susanne DeWitt

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.969 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0969

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    Oral history interview with Susanne DeWitt

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sandra Dewitt describes her early life in Munich, Germany; her father's inability to practice medicine after the Nazi rise to power; the difficulties Jews faced in Germany between 1934-1938; her arrest at age 4; her memories of Kristallnacht; her family's deportation to Poland and return to Germany; her parents' decision to send her to Holland to live with cousins; her cousins' decision to send her to England in 1939; her seperation from and reunion with her parents in England; her father's difficulty obtaining work because of his "enemy alien" status; her family's move to Wales where her father could work as a doctor; her family's immigration to the United States in 1945; the antisemitism she experienced in the United States; her difficulties in school in New York City; her return to Germany in 1956-1957; and her impressions about German's lack of knowledge about the Holocust.
    Interviewee
    Susanne DeWitt
    Interviewer
    Gene Ayers
    Date
    interview:  1990 May 26
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Marseilles (France)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Susanne DeWitt on May 26, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in March 2005.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:47:46
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