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Oral history interview with Doris Small

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.361 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0597

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    Oral history interview with Doris Small

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Doris Small, born July 1923 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her Polish-born father who was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War I; attending school as a child in Berlin; her mother’s frequent hospital stays because of her poor health; her father’s tobacco store in Berlin; her mother death in 1936; living on rations; experiencing antisemitism; her father’s death from throat cancer in 1938; how her brother cared for her and her sister; her brother’s arrest on October 28, 1938; how she and her sister were left alone; staying with a married couple who had known her father; sleeping in the couple’s bathroom; the kindness of the couple; how the woman’s younger brother was an SS officer; how this man signed the girls up for the Kindertransport; how her sister was too old to go on the Kindertransport; moving from house to house before leaving for England; being on the same Kindertransport train as an old classmate; traveling to Holland; her foster family who lived in London; getting a job sewing in a London factory; how her foster parents lied to authorities because she was not supposed to have a job; how her sister made it to England on a domestic servant permit; and being reunited with her sister.
    Interviewee
    Doris Small
    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
    Small, Doris, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Doris Small 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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