Overview
- Interview Summary
- Hilde Islovitz (née Blumenthal; formerly Wermuth from first marriage) discusses her memories of prewar Frankfurt, Germany; the Nazi rise to power; surviving Kristallnacht; and her flight from Germany to the United States with her mother.
- Interviewee
- Hilde Islovitz
- Interviewer
- Ms. Andrea Pollinger
- Date
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interview:
circa 1980-1985
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Andrea Pollinger
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : WAV.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Andrea Pollinger donated her interview with her grandmother Hilde Islovitz (formerly Wermuth) to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2022.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-16 12:44:56
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Also in Wermuth family collection
The collection consists of Ruth Pollinger's (nee Wermuth) triangle birth pendant, family photographs, and an oral history the donor conducted with her grandmother Hilde Islovitz (née Blumenthal; formerly Wermuth from her first marriage).
Date: 1929-1940
Wermuth family photographs
Document
Includes family photographs as well as a page from a photo album that belonged to the donor's mother, Ruth Pollinger (nee Wermuth, 1929-1970), and capture the Wermuth family's experiences when they arrived in New York in 1940 after fleeing Frankfurt, Germany.
Triangular birth pendant given to Ruth Wermuth
Object
Triangular metal birth pendant belonging to the donor's mother Ruth Polilnger (nee Wermuth, 1929-1970), that sailed with her from Frankfurt, Germany to New York in 1940. It is engraved with her date of birth, place of birth (Frankfurt A.M)., and "Mazel Tov". These birth pendants were traditionally given to newborn girls in Frankfurt, Germany between 1928 and 1929.
