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Oral history interview with Leni Hoffman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.8 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0653

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    Oral history interview with Leni Hoffman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Leni Hoffman (née Eckmann), born August 25, 1930 in Bamberg, Germany, discusses her childhood in Hofheim, Germany; antisemitism in her town before Kristallnacht; her parents’ attempt to emigrate; being on one of the last Kindertransports to a home near Brussels, Belgium in July 1939; her transfer to a non-Jewish orphanage, Foyer des Orphelins, in Middelkerke, Belgium with ten other girls; being transferred to the orphanage’s campus in Brussels after the start of bombing of the Belgian coastline on May 10, 1940; spending her days pasting ration stamps when she and the other Jewish children could no longer attend public school in 1942; how those in charge of the orphanage protected her and the other Jewish girls living there; seeing Nazi officers on the street; restrictions affecting the Jewish girls in the orphanage; wearing a Star of David badge for a short time; her liberation by the British on September 4, 1944; hearing news about the war on the radio; immigrating to the United States to live with her aunt and cousins in New York City in 1946; attending high school there until she had to get a job; attending night school, where she met other Jewish refugees; meeting and marrying her husband; staying in contact with and later visiting people from the orphanage in Belgium; and visiting Germany where she spoke at an exhibit about the history of Jewish life in her hometown.
    Interviewee
    Leni Hoffman
    Interviewer
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu
    Date
    interview:  2012 January 05

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hoffman, Leni, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Noemi J. Szekely-Popescu, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Leni Hoffman by telephone on January 5, 2012.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:06
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