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Oral history interview with Helene Steinlauf

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.246 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0246

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    Oral history interview with Helene Steinlauf

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Helene Steinlauf, born on December 6, 1942 in Antwerp, Belgium, discusses her parents during the war years, at which time she was an infant and young child; her parents' experiences in Antwerp during the Nazi occupation of Belgium; the dangers Jews were subject to; her family fleeing to Switzerland; the hardships her mother endured in their travels to Switzerland; being hidden in a cloister where her mother posed as a nun; hiding in a Belgium prison; the family's reunion in Switzerland, where they lived as share croppers; her family's return to Antwerp after the war; and their immigration to the United States in 1955.
    Interviewee
    Helene Steinlauf
    Date
    interview:  1994 June 13
    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
    Steinlauf, Helene.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Helene Steinlauf on June 13, 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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