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Oral history interview with Ruth Plainfield

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.40 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0040

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    Oral history interview with Ruth Plainfield

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ruth Plainfield (née Oppenheimer), born on January 27, 1925 in Gau Bickelheim, Germany, discusses her childhood in Mainz, Germany; the rise of the Nazi party to power; her father's arrest in 1935 and the effect that had on her; her childhood encounters with antisemitism; her family's immigration to the United States; living first in New York and then San Francisco, CA; her family's experiences in California; her education; and learning of the fate of family members, including a grandfather who died in Theresienstadt.
    Interviewee
    Ruth Plainfield
    Date
    interview:  1992 April 07
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Plainfield, Ruth.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Plainfield on April 7, 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 1999.
    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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