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Oral history interview with Lore Soulé

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.938 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0932

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    Oral history interview with Lore Soulé

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lore Soulé discusses her childhood in Reichenbach, Germany (now Dzierżoniów, Poland); her family life with a Jewish father and a Christian mother; the antisemitism she experienced as a child; her increased awareness of her Jewish heritage after Kristallnacht in November 1938; the restrictions she experienced and her attempts to leave Germany with her mother; the bureaucratic error that allowed her initially to pass as non-Jewish and the false paperwork she needed to support her claim; her life in Germany during the war; the work she performed; what she knew about the camps at that time; her life after the war; the work she performed for the British Army; the scarcity of food and other essentials; immigrating with her husband to the United Kingdom in May 1948; their subsequent move to the United States; and her life as an immigrant in postwar America.
    Interviewee
    Lore Soulé
    Interviewer
    Alexandra M. Isles
    Date
    interview:  2004 January 20
    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
    Soulé, Lore.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Lore Soulé on January 20, 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 08:47:33
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