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Oral history interview with Trude Plack

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1023 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1023

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    Oral history interview with Trude Plack

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Plack's childhood in Frankfurt, Germany, Hitler's rise to power, the effect that had on the Plack family, including the loss of the family business, and her young brother's immigration to the United States in February 1938. Ms. Plack describes the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938, her father's arrest and return, and her trip to England with the Kindertransport in March 1939. Ms. Plack discusses her life in England, where she lived with a guardian until being reunited in 1943 with her parents. She describes her parents' escape from Germany through Russia, Japan and the United States, their arrival in the United States in 1940, and their difficulties in adjusting to a new country. Ms. Plack describes her trip from England to the United States in December 1943, her reunion with her parents, and her work, marriage and family life in San Francisco.
    Interviewee
    Trude Plack
    Date
    interview:  1990 December 12
    interview:  1991 February 27
    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 Trude Plack on December 12, 1990 and February 27, 1991. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in November 2004.
    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 08:48:01
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