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Oral history interview with Faye Nelson

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.294 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0294

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    Oral history interview with Faye Nelson

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Faye Nelson (née Franciska Gross), born on June 13, 1930 in Ansbach, Mittelfranken, Germany, discusses her childhood in Ansbach as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Catholic father; her Catholic upbringing; the effect that the Nazis’ rise to power had on her family; her relationship with her Jewish grandmother, who was deported to Majdanek during the war; her feelings of discomfort in school; her experiences with the Hitler Youth movement; her father’s experiences in the German Army; her family’s uneasy life during the Nazi era; being sheltered in a rural location; their positive relationship with United States armed forces personnel; her post-war training as a nurses’ aide; her encounters with Jewish students and former prisoners; her interest in Judaism; her family’s immigration to the United States in 1947; and her life and work in California.
    Interviewee
    Faye Nelson
    Interviewer
    Judith Antelman
    Date
    interview:  1995 January 24
    interview:  1995 February 21
    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
    Nelson, Faye.
    Corporate Name
    Hitler Youth

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Faye Nelson on January 24, 1995 and February 21, 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:44:37
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