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Oral history interview with Margareta Fisse

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.760 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0760

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    Oral history interview with Margareta Fisse

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Margareta Fisse, born April 27, 1926, discusses her childhood in Maribor, Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia); her mother's conversion to Judaism before her birth; the family's move to Belgrade, Serbia; her memories of the bombing of Belgrade when she was in high school; her prior knowledge of concentration camps; the family's deportation to Italy; the Italian officers, whom she found to be kind; their detention in the small village of Lendinara, which was generally benign and peaceful; the family's decision to flee when they learned of the Allied forces advances from southern Italy; obtaining false papers from the village mayor; escaping to Rome; the family's wariness and vigilance during this period; many close calls that could have led to their arrest; her father evading forced labor by obtaining false Hungarian papers; the liberation of Rome; the family's decision to immigrate to the United States; living in Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York for 18 months in the Emergency Refugee Shelter set up by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and eventually moving to and settling in San Francisco, CA.
    Interviewee
    Margareta Fisse
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 21
    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
    Fisse, Margareta.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Margareta Fisse on August 21, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 2004.
    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 08:46:43
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