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Oral history interview with Thea Leavitt

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.569 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0569

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    Oral history interview with Thea Leavitt

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Thea Leavitt describes her childhood in the Hague, the Netherlands, the growing antisemitism and the dangers to Jews brought by the invasion the Netherlands by Nazi Germany in May 1940. Ms. Leavitt describes the splitting up of her family in August 1942, the assistance of the Dutch underground, and being hidden with her sister in the home of a farming family in Oldebroek. She discusses the liberation of the village where she and her sister were living by Canadians in May 1945, and learning of her parents' deaths in Auschwitz in 1944. Ms. Leavitt describes how the Red Cross with the Joint Distribution Committee arranged for her and her sister to reunite with their mother's sister in San Mateo, and her education, career, marriage and family life in the United States.
    Interviewee
    Thea Leavitt
    Interviewer
    Gene Ayres
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 07
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Leavitt, Thea.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Thea Leavitt on August 7, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 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 08:45:47
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