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Oral history interview with Eleanor Rolfe

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.365 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0600

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    Oral history interview with Eleanor Rolfe

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eleanor Rolfe, born January 31, 1930 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses her childhood in Hamburg; her father’s status as a World War I veteran and job as an attorney; how her family was completely assimilated into German society; her parents’ reaction to the Nazi rise to power; her father’s arrest while in court on the day of Kristallnacht; the domestic help leaving her family’s household; how her father’s non-Jewish colleague, Dr. Zibeking, arranged for her to leave on the Kindertransport; how Dr. Zibeking arranged for her parents to relocate to Amsterdam; her feelings as the Kindertransport train crossed into Holland; how her mother’s family all traveled to Holland; the murder of her Uncle Walter by a famous playwright; arriving in London and seeing foster families waiting for children to arrive; how an elderly couple took her in and cared for her in their very simple home; moving with her family to Seattle, WA; how her husband survived the attack on Pearl Harbor; starting a family; how her husband and her children accepted the Jewish religion after moving to the United States; and returning to Germany with her daughter and visiting the house where she was born.
    Interviewee
    Eleanor Rolfe
    Interviewer
    Agnieszka McClure
    Date
    interview:  2010 October 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Rolfe, Eleanor, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Eleanor Rolfe during the Kindertransport Association Conference in Arlington, VA on October 17, 2010. The interview was transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:48
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