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Oral history interview with Jeannette Ringold

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.354 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0354

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    Oral history interview with Jeannette Ringold

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Ringold's young childhood in Amsterdam, Holland; and her experiences as a very young child in hiding beginning in 1942. Ms. Ringold describes her and her brother being hidden separately; her parents' failed attempt at flight to Belgium, France and Switzerland; and their deportation to Dachau and Auschwitz, where they perished. Ms. Ringold discusses the families that sheltered her in nine different hiding places during the war years; her flight with one of the families to a small village; and their liberation by Canadian troops. She describes her reunion with an uncle and her grandmother; being adopted by her uncle and aunt and raised by them; and emigrating with them to the United States in 1954 at the age of fourteen. Ms. Ringold discusses her education, marriage and career in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Jeannette Ringold
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1994 March 25
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Jeannette Ringold on March 25, 1994. 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 08:44:53
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