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Oral history interview with Erica Kanter

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.354 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0593

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    Oral history interview with Erica Kanter

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    Interview Summary
    Erica Kanter (née Hecht), born April 19, 1929, discusses her childhood in Stuttgart, Germany; being the child of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother; her father’s career as a physician; her sister Lisa and brother Karl; attending elementary school in Stuttgart; traveling to Czechoslovakia during the summers to stay at her grandparents’ castle; no one in her family practicing Judaism; attending Lutheran Sunday school; her father’s deportation to Dachau; her father’s rescue by the police chief of Stuttgart; how her father left Germany through Switzerland to go to England; being sent to England on the Kindertransport with her siblings in April 1939; packing and preparing for the trip to England; staying with the Emerson family in Marple, England; English customs; being evacuated to the countryside; how her mother stayed in Germany and then went to Italy where her parents had a home; leaving for the United States through Portugal; sailing to the United States on the Britannic with her father, sister, and brother in 1940; moving to Massachusetts; joining the Congregational Church; studying literature at Harvard; how her mother recovered her jewelry which an acquaintance had hid for her in Germany; her marriage to Milton Kanter; and her experience writing and publishing a memoir.
    Interviewee
    Erica Kanter
    Interviewer
    Ann E. Erling Gofus
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 15

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kanter, Erica, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Erica Kanter during the Kindertransport Association Conference in Arlington, VA on October 15, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:46
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