Oral history interview with Steffi Blumenthal

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2020.211.24 | RG Number: RG-90.133.0024

Overview

Interview Summary: Steffi Blumenthal (née Hess), born on April 8, 1926 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her grandfather the Jewish film producer Ludwig Gottschalk whose career in the German film industry ended following the Nazi rise to power in 1933.
Interviewee: Steffi Blumenthal
Interviewer: André Poser
Date: interview: 2018 July 30
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of André Poser/Blue Lights Heaven Production

Physical Details

Language: German
Extent: 1 digital file : MOV.

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Keywords & Subjects

Geographic Name: Berlin (Germany) Colombia--Emigration and immigration.
Personal Name: Blumenthal, Steffi, 1926-2019. Gottschalk, Ludwig, 1876-1967. Gottschalk, Anna, 1881-1961.

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: André Poser/Blue Lights Heaven Production donated the oral history interviews of The Last Witnesses of Time collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2020. The interview with Steffi Blumenthal was recorded by telephone in 2018.
Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive

Record last modified:: 2023-11-16 10:07:46
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