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Oral history interview with Edith Stevens

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.368 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0368

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    Oral history interview with Edith Stevens

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Stevens's childhood in Berlin, Germany; her father's loss of job after the Nazi's rise to power and having to leave public school in 1935; and her memories of the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938. Ms. Stevens describes her trip on the Kindertransport to England in August 1939; living with a Jewish family in Lester; her parents' flight from Berlin in December 1939; and leaving England to join her parents in July 1940. She discusses adapting to life in the United States, her studies, marriage and family life; and a return trip to Germany in 1992 with other survivors who were in Jewish schools during the war.
    Interviewee
    Edith Stevens
    Date
    interview:  1992 November 18
    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 Edith Stevens on November 18, 1992. 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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