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Oral history interview with Sita de Leeuw

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.599 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0599

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    Oral history interview with Sita de Leeuw

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Sita de Leeuw discusses her childhood in Nuremberg, Germany; the family's move to Leipzig when Hitler rose to power in 1933; her schooling and religious observances; her early encounters with anti-Semitism; the family's move to Prague in 1939, where they remained briefly until Germany occupied Prague; their return to Leipzig; their family's escape to London, England; her parents' insecurity because of their illegal status in England; being sent with her sister to live with a family in the English countryside; the family's reunion and voyage to the United States; the family's stay on Ellis Island; their travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where a relative of her father lived; her encounters with racism and anti-Semitism; the difficulty her parents had finding work and adjusting to life in the United States; her education; her career in teaching preschool; her move with her husband to California; and the murder of her husband, who was a professor at Stanford, after 27 years of marriage.
    Interviewee
    Sita de Leeuw
    Interviewer
    Phillip Maisel
    Date
    interview:  2003 January 06
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    de Leeuw, Sita.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Sita de Leevw on January 6, 2003. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch 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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