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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0435 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0002

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    Oral history interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elizabeth Koenig discusses growing up in Vienna, Austria; her brief connection to the French Resistance as they escaped Europe in 1942; a complicated immigration to the United States ending in New York City; her first experience of “freedom” as the essence of America; her reunion with and subsequent marriage in London, England to Ernest Koenig; becoming a United States citizen; working at New York Public Library’s collection of Nazi materials; encountering Mein Kampf for the first time; looking up to Varian Fry as her true hero; her early married life where she became a medical librarian; the difficulty she has describing her war-time experiences to her daughter; her return visit to her neighborhood in Vienna; her anger at the injustices of life; working in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum library; the closeness of her band of Resistance survivor friends from Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a village famous for its refusal to cooperate with the Nazi-backed government; and the need to speak openly about the Holocaust because the people who can testify are dying out.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Elizabeth Koenig
    Interviewer
    Dan Collison
    Date
    interview:  1997 June 04
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (74 min.).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Dan Collison, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the interview with Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig in Alexandria, VA.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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:
    2023-08-23 08:57:40
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