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Oral history interview with Hanny Leitson

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.355 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0601

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    Oral history interview with Hanny Leitson

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hanny Leitson (née Johanna Gross), born June 16, 1925 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her family life before the war; how the Nazi rise to power affected her family members, especially her father who was an attorney; how her brother left in 1938 for Denmark and then later traveled to Bolivia; her feelings about leaving her family to go on the Kindertransport in 1939; how she and her mother prepared for her journey to England; her memories of crossing the Dutch border by train and then taking a ship to England; how her mother’s cousins met her in England and arranged for her to live with a foster family in Cheltenham; learning English and attending school in England; her work as a secretary for the US Signal Corps in Cheltenham; how her parents immigrated to the United States in 1939 and settled in Elmhurst, New York; the death of her father; her immigration to the United States in November 1944 to be with her mother; difficulties in adjusting to living with her mother again; receiving a scholarship to the University of Michigan; her brother’s, step-brother’s, and mother’s lives after the war; studying English literature; and meeting her husband at the University of Michigan.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Hanny Leitson
    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
    Leitson, Hanny, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Hanny Leitson 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 08:03:49
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