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Oral history interview with Marion Wolff

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.360 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0596

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    Oral history interview with Marion Wolff

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marion Wolff (née Pollak), born May 8, 1930 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her Austrian-born father and German-born mother; how her father owned movie theaters in Berlin and became the North German distributor for a major production company; moving to Prague, Czech Republic with her family for nine months in 1935; moving to Vienna, Austria; memories of her father dying at an early age in Vienna; experiencing antisemitism as a child; her memories of Kristallnacht; how her mother made and sold leather flowers; unknowingly signing up for the Kindertransport; preparing to leave on the Kindertransport and her mother’s reaction to her departure; leaving Vienna on December 10, 1938; wanting to protect her mother; experiencing fear while on the train to Holland; living in Dovercourt, a large camp for children when they first arrived in England; how a Quaker family from York took her into their home; life with her foster parents, Jessie and Walter Robson; learning English; how the Quaker foster family brought her mother to England; experiencing antisemitism while in school in England; attending a Quaker boarding school; her mother’s experiences upon entering England; how her grandmother was in Theresienstadt; the guilt her mother felt about leaving her family in Germany; her extended family and their fates; working for the American Chamber of Commerce in London; and immigrating to the United States in 1960.
    Interviewee
    Marion Wolff
    Interviewer
    Milda Morkyte
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 16

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Wolff, Marion, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Marion Wolff during the Kindertransport Association Conference in Arlington, VA on October 16, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:47
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