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Oral history interview with Vera Ellis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.15 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0015

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    Oral history interview with Vera Ellis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Vera Baer Ellis, born in Beckum in Northwest Germany, describes being raised by her grandparents and having a happy childhood; being the only Jewish child in the school system; her parents’ dry goods store; her father and grandfather serving in the German Army in World War I (she shows a photograph of her father in uniform); beginning to understand that her family was deferent because of they were Jews; her parents keeping their store open in secret after 1935; Kristallnacht and her father and grandfather being taken away by the local police but released soon after; Nazis breaking the windows in their home; being 11 years old in March 1939 when she was sent to England with other children; never seeing her grandfather and father again; her mother getting to England and being interned on the Isle of Man for eight months; being evacuated during the Blitz to a boarding school in Cornwall, where she stayed until 1944; her various jobs after 1944; going to Buffalo, NY in March 1947; her grandfather, who felt German and not Jewish; her husband’s survival of Bergen-Belsen; telling her children about her experiences; visiting her hometown in 1979; and sharing her story.
    Interviewee
    Vera Ellis
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 July

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ellis, Vera.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Vera Ellis with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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