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Oral history interview with Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.250 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0588

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    Oral history interview with Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad

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    Interview Summary
    Bertl Esenstad, born in Korb, Germany in 1925; discusses her childhood in Adelsheim, Germany; her father Adolf Rosenfeld, who lost a leg in World War I; her father’s business in cattle trade and feed; her close relationship with her three sisters and one brother; her mother Katharina (Katty) Lemberger Rosenfeld, working alongside her father; how her father was very strict; attending a Jewish school in Heilbronn, Germany where she lived with her maternal aunt; later moving to Aachen, Germany to attended a second Jewish school; her memories of Kristallnacht; being sent with her sisters Edith and Ruth Rosenfeld to London, England in March 1939 where they had a maternal aunt; how the Rosenfeld sisters lived in private homes and hostels; how sister Esther Rosenfeld later joined them; living with the Poole family in London; how Mr. Poole was a chauffer for a Jewish family for which Bertl’s aunt worked; how the Poole’s maid taught her English; traveling to Scotland with the Poole family after war was declared; how the Bloomsbury House assisted with the Kindertransport; communicating with and sending money to her parents through the Quakers; her parents deportation in 1942 to Gurs and then Auschwitz; her youngest brother Herman Rosenfeld’s deportation to Gurs and his eventual immigration to the United States with other children; immigrating to the United States in 1948 with her sisters; settling in Washington, DC; and working for Hymen Goldman who was the founder of the Hebrew Home.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Bertl R. Esenstad
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2010 September 16

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Ina Navazelskis, Program Coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad on September 16, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
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