Overview
- Interview Summary
- Marianne Oelsner, born in 1922, discusses her childhood in Dortmund, Germany; her parents’ decision to send her to England in 1936 when life in Nazi Germany became untenable; her life in Cambridge, where she learned English and held several jobs; working at a daycare center and a munitions factory; cleaning homes on the weekends; her status as an "enemy alien" in England; joining her parents in La Paz, Bolivia after the war; meeting and marrying Helmut Oelsner in La Paz; and eventually immigrating to the United States.
- Interviewee
- Marianne Oelsner
- Interviewer
- Thomas Oelsner
- Date
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interview:
2017 November
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Thomas Oelsner
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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5 digital files : MOV.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
- Copyright Holder
- Thomas Oelsner
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Aliens--Great Britain. Child care--England. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Household employees--England. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Germany--Dortmund. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. Jews, German--England. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--England--Cambridge. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Geographic Name
- Bolivia--Emigration and immigration. Cambridge (England) Dortmund (Germany) Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. La Paz (Bolivia) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Oelsner, Marianne, 1922-
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Thomas Oelsner donated the interview with his mother Marianne Oelsner to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2021.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:09:18
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