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Oral history interview with Irmgard Clark

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.598 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0598

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    Oral history interview with Irmgard Clark

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Imgard Clark discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her memories of Hitler's rise to power; the difficulties she experienced, including being forced to leave school and take up a trade; her memories of Kristallnacht; her father hiding to avoid arrest; the family's flight from Germany to Shanghai in 1939;the family's arrival in Shanghai; the difficulties they experienced; her education in English; working as a nanny for an English family; the couple's arrest when Japan occupied Shanghai; marrying for economic reasons; living in the Hong Kew ghetto; the end of the war and the arrival of American troops; meeting her second husband who was an American sailor; emigrating to the United States, followed by her parents; her life in Minnesota and in Oakland, California, where she and husband settled and raised their family.
    Interviewee
    Irmgard Clark
    Interviewer
    Phillip Maisel
    Date
    interview:  2003 March 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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irmgard Clark on March 12, 2003. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in September 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 08:45:56
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