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Oral history interview with Ruth Willdorf

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.381 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0381

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    Oral history interview with Ruth Willdorf

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ruth Willdorf, born on March 28, 1927 in in Mayen, Germany, discusses her childhood in Mayen; the changes she and her family experienced after 1933; their move to Kalkar, Germany; the antisemitism she experienced while traveling to and from school and her experiences during Kristallnacht in November 1938, including her father's arrest; her family's decision to send her to Rotterdam, Netherlands to live with a relative; her attempts to immigrate to the United States with her father; her experiences after the German invasion of Holland in May 1940; living with a couple who were part of the resistance; living next with a Jewish family in Amsterdam; her activities with the resistance and the close calls she experienced; her arrest and imprisonment by the Gestapo; being deported to a special camp for people with dual citizenship, the conditions, and her experiences there; her transfer to Westerbork; her subsequent transfer to Bergen-Belsen in January 1944; the conditions there and the brutality of the guards; being liberated from a bombed train by the United States Army in April 1945; her medical issues following liberation and her recovery; her immigration to the United States in 1946; her reunion with her father; her life in the US; and the after-effects of her Holocaust experiences.
    Interviewee
    Ruth Willdorf
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Anne G. Saldinger
    Date
    interview:  2001 June 06
    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
    Willdorf, Ruth.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Ruth Willdorf on June 6, 2001. 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:45:00
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