Overview
- Interview Summary
- Edith Kenickson describes the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938; the increase in antisemitism; her parents' attempts to immigrate; her father's arrest in Hamburg, Germany and her mother's successful pleas to free him; her immigration to the United States with her brother in 1939; her parents' immigration to Cuba; and her family's reunion after the war.
- Date
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creation:
2009 June 04
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Scott Silk
Physical Details
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives. Jewish families--Austria. Jewish refugees. Jews--Austria. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria. Jews--Persecutions--Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Cuba--Emigration and immigration. United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Kenickson, Edith.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Scott Silk, a teacher at Pacific Ridge School, donated a copy of Edith Kenickson's June 4, 2009 school presentation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 12, 2009.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:17:59
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