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Oral history interview with Rebecca Siegel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.225 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0225

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    Oral history interview with Rebecca Siegel

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rebecca Siegel (née Salomons), born on November 23, 1929 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, discusses her childhood in Amsterdam; her memories of the invasion of Holland by Nazi Germany in 1940; her father's activities helping Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany; being forced to leave her elementary school for a Jewish school in June 1941; the family's move to a Jewish ghetto in Amsterdam; conditions for Jews under the Nazi occupation; her family's deportation to Westerbork in September 1942; her experiences in Westerbork; the family's deportation to Bergen-Belsen and the terrible conditions there; her father's death while in Bergen-Belsen; being transported on a train in April 1945 to an unknown destination; the abandonment of the train by Nazi troops; her family's liberation by American soldiers; their return to Amsterdam; her life in the Netherlands after the war; and the family's immigration to the United States in 1951.
    Interviewee
    Rebecca Siegel
    Date
    interview:  1994 May 12
    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
    Siegel, Rebecca.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Rebecca Siegel on May 12, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    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 08:44:21
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