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Oral history interview with Regine Ginsberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.142 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0183

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    Oral history interview with Regine Ginsberg

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    Interview Summary
    Regine Ginsberg, born on November 19, 1925, discusses her childhood in Brussels, Belgium; her father’s work in the leather industry; religious observances in the household; speaking Yiddish at home and French in school; how her father wired money to Chase Bank in New York in the 1930s; her family abandoning their home in Brussels to travel by train to France; staying with a farmer in St. Gaudens, France; the family’s arrest in St. Gaudens; how her brother and father were sent to a prison near Toulouse, France and then released seven weeks later; how her mother returned to Brussels and brought back Sabbath candlesticks, prayer shawls, tefillin, and diamond jewelry which she used to bribe guards; how her father contacted a cousin in Pennsylvania; being on the last boat out of France from Marseilles; arriving in New York in June 1942; staying with cousins in Pittsburgh, PA and then settling in McKeesport, PA; her mother and father’s work in the leather industry; moving to Texas where she met her future husband Reuben Ginsberg in Athens, TX; her brother enlisting in the army and being sent to Belgium where he did intelligence work acting as a French interpreter; studying along with her husband at Columbia University in New York; becoming an art dealer and opening up a gallery in the 1970s; her emotional state after the war; and how her wartime experiences affected her life, her marriage, and the way she raised her children.
    Interviewee
    Regine Ginsberg
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  2010 April 23

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Regine Ginsberg on April 23, 2010. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2010.
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    2023-11-16 08:12:55
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