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Oral history interview with Inge Sachs Rosenthal

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0389

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    Oral history interview with Inge Sachs Rosenthal

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    Interview Summary
    Inge Sachs Rosenthal, born May 27, 1923 in Berlin, Germany, describes her childhood; going on a Kindertransport to London in March or April 1939; meeting her Scottish-English guardians who lived in a London suburb; not having enough money to attend school and instead going to a crèche to be trained as a children’s nurse; returning to her guardians to work as a housekeeper once the war broke out in September 1939; hating her life with her guardians in the suburbs and leaving them after three years; locating a job at an optical factory with the help of the German-Austrian Labour Exchange; loving her work and deciding to become an optician; eventually becoming a Fellow of the British Optical Association and working in a firm on Regents Street in London; immigrating to the United States in 1947; spending two years working in an optometrist’s office in New York City, NY; marrying a German refugee in 1949 and moving with him to his coffee farm in Rolândia, Brazil; her husband’s death in 1973 and taking over the administration of the coffee farm; and having a family of four children and five grandchildren.
    Interviewee
    Inge S. Rosenthal
    Interviewer
    Katie Davis
    Date
    interview:  1998 June 19

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Katie Davis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Inge Sachs Rosenthal on June 19, 1998.
    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 08:02:32
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