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Oral history interview with Liesel Reichsthaler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.867 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0867

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    Oral history interview with Liesel Reichsthaler

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Liesel Reichsthaler discusses her childhood in Germany; the advent of anti-Jewish restrictions after Hitler rose to power; her family's decision to move to Amsterdam, Holland in 1933; her experiences as a child in Amsterdam; her family's association with the Otto Frank family; her family's experiences under Nazi occupation; manual labor they performed; anti-Jewish restrictions; her family's deportation and confinement in Westerbork concentration camp, where they remained until the end of the war; her father's prominent position in the Jewish community; her father’s efforts to rescue individuals slated for deportation to Auschwitz; her father’s work with diamond dealing and falsified documents; the liberation of Westerbork by Canadian troops in April 1945; her father's arrest in 1947 on charges of collaboration; her father’s exoneration and the family's subsequent disassociation with the Jewish community; her marriage and family life in the Netherlands after the war; immigrating to the United States in 1984, after the death of her husband.
    Interviewee
    Liesel Reichsthaler
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Date
    interview:  1995 May 23
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Liesel Reichsthaler on May 23, 1995. 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 08:47:18
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