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Oral history interview with Rose Lesser

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.336 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0336

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    Oral history interview with Rose Lesser

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Rose Lesser describes her childhood in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland); her memories of moving to an all-Jewish school in 1933; her memories of Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald; his release; her family's flight to Shanghai, China; being strip-searched by the Germans; their arrival in Shanghai; the conditions in the Hong Kew ghetto; the hardships her family endured; the arrival of Americans to assist the refugees in 1946; her first marriage; her immigration to San Francisco; her husband's death; her remarriage; the birth of her two children; and learning of her grandparents' deaths at Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
    Interviewee
    Rose Lesser
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1998 May 20
    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
    Lesser, Rose.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Rose Lesser on May 20, 1998. 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 08:44:48
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