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Oral history interview with Lore Zanders

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.384 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0384

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    Oral history interview with Lore Zanders

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lore Zanders discusses her childhood in an assimilated Jewish family in Arnsberg, Germany; the boycott of her father's store in 1933; her father's death in 1935; her brother's departure to Holland in 1936 because of her mother's uneasiness with the antisemitic climate in Germany; her experiences in a Jewish boarding school in Cologne in 1937; her departure for England on a Kindertransport to Manchester, England; her experiences in England; her mother remarrying in 1939, moving to Switzerland, and immigrating to Ecuador; the fate of her brother, who was arrested in Amsterdam and died in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941; reuniting with her mother in 1943; the difficult journey to Argentina, including an overland crossing of the Andes, to Valpairaso, Chile and finally to Ecuador; marrying in 1944; the birth of her three children; her family's move to Santiago, Chile; immigrating to the United States in 1963.
    Interviewee
    Lore Zanders
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Anne G. Saldinger
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lore Zanders on July 15, 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 08:45:01
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