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Oral history interview with Liesl Loeb

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.65 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0065

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    Oral history interview with Liesl Loeb

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    Interview Summary
    Liesl Joseph Loeb, born on June 17, 1928 in Rheydt, Rhineland, Germany, describes being a passenger on the St. Louis along with her father, Josef Joseph, an attorney, and her mother, Lilly Salmon Joseph; sailing on May 13, 1939 from Hamburg toward Havana, Cuba with 937 Jewish refugees on board; her family background and life leading up to Kristallnacht, during which she hid in her own home while Nazis were vandalizing it; the months leading up to embarkation and conditions which had to be met before leaving Germany and immigrating to Cuba; her family’s plan to be in Cuba until their quota number was called for the United States; the trip and its complications from a child’s perspective; her father’s sense of duty as the chairman of the passenger committee and the commitment and devotion of all its members; the desperate situation of the hapless passengers to whom no country offered a haven; spending 40 days at sea and the rescue efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the countries that offered refuge to the passengers; her family landing in England and their life as World War II began; the destiny of most of the passengers; attending school as an “evacuee” and the internment of her father on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien; arriving in New York, NY on September 10, 1940; and her graduation from high school and her immediate marriage after.
    Interviewee
    Liesl J. Loeb
    Date
    interview:  1998 November 17
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    St. Louis (Ship)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Liesl Loeb in Philadelphia, Pa., on November 17, 1998. The Unite States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on September 30, 1999.
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