Overview
- Interview Summary
- Marion Walter, born in 1928 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her prewar family life in Germany; an incident in which her family was almost reported because she did not say ‘Heil Hitler’ to her teacher; attending a Jewish boarding school near Ulm with her sister from about 1936 - 1939; traveling with her sister on the kindertransport to distant relatives in England who sponsored them; arriving in England on March 16, 1939; attending a boarding school in Eastbourne, on the southern coast of England; reuniting with her parents in England; hiding during air raids and evacuating from the school and town; staying at a country home of a friend of the school’s headmistress; sleeping on mattresses in a converted dog kennel because of lack of space in the house; her father’s internment on the Isle of Man in 1940; his death in 1943; and being asked to teach mathematics at the boarding school in 1944 at the age of 16.
Shlomo Liebeskind, born in Poland in 1937, discusses his family’s relocation to a ghetto in their town; how they left the ghetto to live in a nearby village with his grandparents; how his uncle and brother were hidden in a barn for the duration of the war; his father and another uncle’s attempt to find safety in the Russian section; how he and his mother made it to Warsaw where an uncle was living under an assumed name; receiving false papers identifying them as Christian; his father’s arrival in Warsaw and diagnosis of Leukemia shortly after the war started; having to leave Warsaw to avoid being discovered by the Gestapo; living with Christian families during the war; hiding in “plain sight,” attending Church; living in Warsaw after the war until 1947; his family’s move to the Allied zone of Germany where they stayed in Munich for a year; his father’s death in 1947; his family’s return to Poland; their immigration to Israel; evacuating before the Sinai campaign; and how he never intended to become a citizen of the United States but stayed in the country for his career. - Interviewee
- Shlomo Liebeskind
Marion Walter - Interviewer
- Deborah A. Green
- Date
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interview:
2011 May 01
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Deborah A. Green
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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- Copyright Holder
- Deborah A. Green
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews. World War, 1939-1945. Hiding places--Poland. Jewish refugees--England. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--England. Men--Personal narratives. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Walter, Marion. Liebeskind, Shlomo.
- Corporate Name
- Kindertransport Association
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Deborah A. Green donated a copy of her oral history interview with Marion Walter and Shlomo Liebeskind to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:28:54
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