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Oral history interview with Lore Perl

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0527 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0447

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    Oral history interview with Lore Perl

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lore Perl, born in 1913 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her childhood; the hardships of growing up during World War I; her mother's Catholicism and her father's lack of religion; going to a teacher's college and becoming a kindergarten teacher; the effects of the Great Depression on Austria and finding work as a secretary; her friendships with Jews and meeting her Jewish husband; her conversion to Judaism; her husband's immigration to England while she stayed in Vienna, Austria, taking care of her sick mother; her husband's involvement in illegally smuggling Jews into Palestine; her memories of Kristallnacht and the beginning of World War II; her arrest by the Gestapo for helping Jews; her transfer to several different prisons, the suffering she witnessed there, and her eventual arrival in Ravensbrück; the conditions in Ravensbrück; how an uncle who worked in the Foreign Ministry in Austria was able to obtain her release; her return to Vienna where she lived with an aunt and cousin; organizing a kindergarten with neighborhood children after the liberation of Vienna; her husband's return from the United States; her recuperation in a hospital for several months and then her immigration to the United States; and how her faith was affected by her experiences during the war.
    Interviewee
    Lore Perl
    Interviewer
    Arwen Donahue
    Date
    interview:  1996 November 13

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Perl, Lore, 1913-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Arwen Donahue, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Lore Perl on November 13, 1996.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:02:55
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