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Oral history interview with Ellen Stewer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.236 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0236

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    Oral history interview with Ellen Stewer
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    Interview Summary
    Ellen Stewer (née Katz), born on October 10, 1918 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her childhood in Berlin; her parents and her older sister, Vera Katz; moving with her mother to Vienna in 1937 after the death of her father; the antisemitism and persecution Jews faced in Vienna after the Anschluss in March 1938; a particular incident in which Jewish men in Vienna were forced to wash the streets; her and her mother's arrest for attempting to send money out of the country; her future husband exchanging himself for them and his imprisonment until 1940; her mother's death; fleeing to Shanghai, China with her husband in 1940; her experiences in Shanghai from 1941 to 1947; immigrating with her husband to the United States in 1947; and their experiences adapting to their new life in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Ellen Stewer
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1995 January 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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Stewer, Ellen.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ellen Stewer on January 12, 1995. 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.
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 20:13:12
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