Overview
- Interview Summary
- Hildegard Lebow (née Marum), born in 1917 in Sobernheim, Germany, discusses her experiences as a German Jew in Nazi Germany in the 1930s; her memories of Kristallnacht; her family's flight from Germany to the United States in 1939; and her family's life in the United States, including being classified as enemy aliens.
- Interviewee
- Hildegard Lebow
- Interviewer
- Athena Lynch
- Date
-
interview:
2005
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of James Lebow
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MPEG-4.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Antisemitism--Germany. Holocaust survivors--United States. Immigrants--United States. Jewish refugees--United States. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. Kristallnacht, 1938. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
- Geographic Name
- Sobernheim (Germany) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Lebow, Hildegard, 1917-2016.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- James Lebow donated his mother Hildegard Lebow's interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2021.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:09:29
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