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Oral history interview with Susanne M Batzdorff

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.394 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0394

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    Oral history interview with Susanne M Batzdorff

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    Interview Summary
    Susanne Beeberstein Batzdorff, born September 25, 1921 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), describes her childhood in Breslau; her family, including her father (Hans Beeberstein), mother (Urna Stein Beeberstein), and brother (Ernie, born in Novmeber 1922); the family’s religious practices; attending synagogue on the High Holidays; attending a non-Jewish public school; her memories of the Nazi Party’s ascent to power in 1933; the effects of anti-Jewish laws; the antisemitism she experienced in school; songs from the Nazi movement that were taught in music class; her parents' medical practice and the loss of their medical licenses due to antisemitic laws; her father's immigration to the United States in 1938; the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; learning that her father had obtained visas for his family and their immigration to the US in February 1939; her experiences in New York City as a new immigrant; her education, marriage, family; her career as a librarian; traveled to Germany and Israel; how it was emotionally difficult to return to Germany; moving to California in 1981; her five grandchildren; and authoring several books, including a memoir, as well as books of fiction and poetry.
    Interviewee
    Susanne M. Batzdorff
    Date
    interview:  1994 March 03
    interview:  1994 April 07
    interview:  1994 May 12
    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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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Susanne M. Batzdorff on March 3, 1994, April 7, 1994, and May 12, 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.
    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 08:45:04
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