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Oral history interview with Lore May Rasmussen

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.925 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0925

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    Oral history interview with Lore May Rasmussen

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lore Rasmussen discusses her childhood in Lampertheim, Germany; her family life; her education in Lampertheim and Worms; the antisemitism she experienced in school; immigrating to the United States in 1938; her continuing education at the University of Illinois; her work at Talladega College, an all-black college in Alabama; the racism she observed at Talladega; the conditions her students lived in; an incident in which she was arrested for eating in a segregated cafe with an African-American colleague; her brief return to Lampertheim; the impact of her experiences in Nazi Germany.
    Interviewee
    Lore M. Rasmussen
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Anne G. Saldinger
    Date
    interview:  2004 June 09
    interview:  2004 June 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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Lampertheim (Germany)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lore May Rasmussen on June 9, 2004 and June 23, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
    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 08:47:31
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