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Oral history interview with Miriam Drejer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.312 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0312

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    Oral history interview with Miriam Drejer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Miriam Lisbet Drejer (née Lisbeth Kaufman), born on May 26, 1923 in Vienna, Austria, describes her father Alfred Kaufmann, who was a jeweler and radio-store owner; her mother Ella Politzer; living a privileged life before the war; being brought up in an upper-class family and attending synagogue two times each week as a social function; the Christian socialists coming into power in 1933 and seeing the first signs of antisemitism in Vienna; anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss; being taken to the Gestapo for sitting on a bench; seeing the movie, “I Accuse” in 1934 and deciding to join a Zionist youth group; immigrating to Israel (then Palestine) in 1938; her brother Kurt joining her there in 1939; getting married to a man from the English Army and having two children; the deportation of her father to Dachau, which he was able to leave because he had a visa to go to Shanghai, China; her mother staying in Austria to take care of her grandmother and her deportation to Minske, Belarus, where she died; reconnecting with her father in 1945, which led her to leave Israel; and taking her two children to the United States where she remarried.
    Interviewee
    Miriam Drejer
    Date
    interview:  1999 June 15
    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
    Drejer, Miriam, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Miriam Drejer on June 15, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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 08:44:42
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