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Oral history interview with Ellen Zweig

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.24 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0545

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    Oral history interview with Ellen Zweig

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    Interview Summary
    Ellen Zweig (née Seligman), born May 18, 1929 in Regensburg, Germany, describes her childhood in prewar Germany; her mother Rose Hirschfeld, father Juilius Seligman, and sister Margit; her education in an all-Jewish school beginning in 1936; discrimination against her father because he was a Catholic married to a Jewish woman; her father’s arrest on Kristallnacht; her move with her mother and sister to her grandmother’s apartment; her father’s eventual return; her family’s ability to immigrate to the United States in 1940; her family’s time in Munich, Germany then Italy then Genoa, Switzerland on their way to New York, NY; her family’s move to Washington, DC; and her postwar life in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Ellen Zweig
    Interviewer
    Judy Cohen
    Date
    interview:  2010 March 02

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zweig, Ellen, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Ellen Zweig on March 2, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:29
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