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Oral history interview with Ursula Foster

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.231 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0231

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    Oral history interview with Ursula Foster

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ursula Foster, born in January 12, 1927 in Hannover, Germany, discusses her childhood in Hannover; the increasing antisemitism in Germany after 1933; her family's immigration to Amsterdam, Netherlands in March 1938; her life in Amsterdam, including her acquaintance with Anne Frank; the invasion of Holland by Germany in 1940; the increasing oppression, discrimination, and hardships endured by the Jewish population; her old brother's transport to Westerbork, how her parents and she were able to evade capture; their experiences being hidden in Amsterdam beginning in 1943; the conditions in hiding and the fear she felt; their liberation in 1945; learning that her brother perished in Auschwitz; immigrating with her parent to the United States in 1947; settling in Oakland, California; the difficulties her parents encountered in adapting to life in the United States; her adult life; and her return visit to Germany.
    Interviewee
    Ursula Foster
    Date
    interview:  1993 November 18
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ursula Foster on November 18, 1993. 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 08:44:23
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