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Oral history interview with Elli Schwarz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.929 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0929

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    Oral history interview with Elli Schwarz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elli von Konschegg Schwarz discusses her childhood in Aschersleben, Germany; the conditions she experienced in post-WWI Germany; her early encounters with the Nazi regime; her experiences as an outsider due to her family's socialist and anti-Nazi political views; the growing pro-Nazi sentiments of her schoolmates; her education and working life; the atmosphere she witnessed in Berlin, Germany in 1938; the damage she observed after Kristallnacht and the reasons given by the German government; her friendship with a Jewish woman, including a letter she received explaining that her friend would be moving to a work camp; her lack of understanding of the larger ramifications of the Final Solution despite witnessing the effects of antisemitism; her decision to attend school in Vienna, Austria in 1939 for a Ph.D. program; her return to Berlin in 1942; the birth of her child; the effects of the war on her family; her experiences at the end of the war, including the occupation of her parents' town by United States Army soldiers and the subsequent Soviet occupation; her experiences in Soviet-occupied Germany; the fuel and food shortages; and her escape to the west in 1958.
    Interviewee
    Elli von Konschegg Schwarz
    Interviewer
    Rhoda G. Lewin
    Date
    interview:  1992 October 22
    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
    Schwarz, Elli.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Elli Schwarz on October 22, 1992. 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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