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Oral history interview with Hilde Catz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.802 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0802

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    Oral history interview with Hilde Catz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hilde Catz was born in 1924 in Aschaffenburg, Germany to an Orthodox family. The interview describes Ms. Catz's childhood in Germany, her remembrances of antisemitism in Germany and of Kristallnacht in November 1938, her experiences as part of the Kindertransport to London, her experiences in foster care in England during the war, her training as a nurse and her involvement with child survivors of concentration camps after the war. Ms. Catz immigrated to the United States and settled in Santa Rosa, raised a family and became a teacher, and continues to reside there.
    Interviewee
    Hilde Catz
    Date
    interview:  1990 December 18
    interview:  1991 June 04
    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
    3 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Catz, Hilde, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Hilde Catz on December 18, 1990 and June 4, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 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 08:46:56
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