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Oral history interview with Edith Froelich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.25 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0025

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    Oral history interview with Edith Froelich

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    Interview Summary
    Edith Froelich, born in 1923 in Rödelheim (a suburb of Frankfurt am Main), Germany, describes being an only child; her family’s two stores; attending a Jewish school; going in 1937 to a vocational school, where she learned how to cook and sew and studied languages; Kristallnacht in 1938 and the destruction to their stores; her father being taken away and her mother getting him out; applying for visas; being sent to Sweden with a group of about 60 children; cooking for farmers; her parents going to the United States in 1940; corresponding with her parents; going to the US in March 1940; going to Buffalo, NY; working as a timekeeper in a factory; meeting her husband through her aunt; tell her children about the Holocaust; traveling to Germany in 1979 with her oldest son; and her message to others to appreciate living in a free country.
    Interviewee
    Edith Froelich
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Froelich, Edith, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Edith Froelich 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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