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Oral history interview with Gabriele Derenberg Schiff

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.373 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0460

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    Oral history interview with Gabriele Derenberg Schiff

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    Interview Summary
    Gabriele D. Schiff, born in 1914 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses her childhood in an assimilated Jewish household; her encounters with antisemitism; her job as a social worker in a Jewish orphanage; moving to England for school and then returning to Germany; immigrating to England and then to the United States in 1937; graduating from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in English and then earning a degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania; her knowledge of the situation in Germany during the war; working with the American Friends Service Committee to help refugees get affidavits of support to immigrate to the United States; working as a counselor at a refugee vacation camp set up by the Quakers in Nyack, New York; working for a year at a state psychiatric hospital in Maryland and serving as the director of recreation at a camp for conscientious objectors; being classified as an enemy alien during the war but then becoming an American citizen; being asked by the War Relocation Authority to work at the refugee camp in Oswego, New York in 1943; going to Italy with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in 1946; her observations on the suffering of refugees after World War II; the desire of refugees to immigrate to Palestine; leaving Italy in 1948 and working for the Joint in Brazil; returning to Europe and working for the Joint in Germany; suffering injuries in a car accident and recuperating in a hospital in Italy where she met her husband; returning to the United States in 1950, marrying, and starting work; and her experiences working with Holocaust survivors in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Gabriele Derenberg Schiff
    Interviewer
    Amy Rubin
    Date
    interview:  2000 July 27

    Physical Details

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Amy Rubin, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Gabriele Derenberg Schiff on July 27, 2000 in Forest Hills, N.Y.
    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 08:03:00
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