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Oral history interview with Rita Penn

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.89 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0569

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    Oral history interview with Rita Penn

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rita Penn, born March 29, 1933 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her childhood as the only child of Polish-born parents; how her parents came to Austria as young adults; leaving Vienna, Austria when she was six years old; how her mother sewed jewelry into underwear; moving to London, England with her family; living through the Blitz; sheltering in the Underground; how her father was interned for eleven months on the Isle of Man because the British were nervous about people speaking German; how her father was not mistreated while interned; living with a family and attending school outside of Cheltenham, England; being asked to speak German with German prisoners at a POW camp; learning English and teaching her parents English; how her maternal aunt was also interned on the Isle of Man; listening to Churchill on the radio; memories of school in England; moving to the United States with her family; never speaking German again; identifying as neither Austrian nor British; returning to Austria for family vacations; and her cousin Irwin Knoll who worked for the Washington Post.
    Interviewee
    Rita Penn
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2010 March 02

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Penn, Rita, 1933-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Rita Penn 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 08:03:37
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