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Oral history interview with Trude Meyer and Jenny Thompson

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.525 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0525

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    Oral history interview with Trude Meyer and Jenny Thompson

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    Interview Summary
    The interviews describe Ms. Meyer's childhood in Fronhausen, Germany, including her experiences with antisemitism and the Nuremberg Laws. She describes her family's deportation to Riga ghetto in Latvia in 1941, their subsequent transport to Kaiserwald concentration camp in 1943, and their experiences in these places. She discusses her sister's and her transfer to an AEG factory in Torun, Poland in 1944; their liberation by the Russians in 1945; her health issues after liberation; the fates of other family members; and their immigration to the United States in 1946.
    Interviewee
    Trude Meyer
    Jenny Thompson
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  2002 July 31
    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 Trude Meyer and Jenny Thompson on July 31, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
    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 08:45:34
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