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Oral history interview with Lotte Salus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028

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    Oral history interview with Lotte Salus

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lotte Salus (b. Charlotte Helena Cohen) discusses her childhood living near the Dutch border in Germany; working for a Jewish family; being arrested and pressed into labor after Kristallnacht; being sent to Amsterdam, Netherlands by her father; living with other Jewish teenagers in The Hague, Netherlands; learning her family had been deported to Westerbork; moving to Amsterdam in May 1940; receiving orders to register with the police; being deported to Westerbork; reuniting with her family; daily life in Westerbork; volunteering to go to Theresienstadt with her parents in 1944; her experiences in the camps Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Praust; being taken on a death march in March 1945; liberation by the Russians; sexual violence perpetrated by the Russians; returning to Germany; immigrating to the United States in 1949; and marrying and starting a family.
    Interviewee
    Lotte Salus
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  1996 February 26
    Geography
    creation: Silver Spring (Md.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Salus, Lotte.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Gail Schwartz, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on February 26, 1996 in Silver Spring, MD. The interview was transferred to the Archives on February 26, 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 08:12:01
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