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Oral history interview with Jenny Brody

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.394.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0842

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    Oral history interview with Jenny Brody
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    Interview Summary
    Jenny Brody (née Judith Sara Regen), born on August 16, 1928 in the Scheunenviertel neighborhood of Berlin, Germany; her older brothers (Herbert, Helmut, and Alfred) and her younger sister, Romana; her mother, Bertha (née Cahn), and her non-Jewish stepfather, Josef Regen; life in Scheunenviertel; her mother’s work ethic; being beaten by her stepfather; growing up poor and never having a sense of family; spending Sabbath with her maternal grandmother; her schooling and experiencing discrimination; her fear during Kristallnacht and seeing people being beaten in the streets; the deportation of her three brothers; her grandmother’s deportation to Theresienstadt; her stepfather’s disappearance; her mother’s imprisonment in Berlin and her sister joining her there; being left alone to fend for herself; hiding in a neighbor’s cellar; being caught by Stella Kübler; being imprisoned in a former Jewish school turned jail in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin, where she stayed throughout the remainder of the war from 1942 to 1945; being a slave laborer at a tailoring shop owned and run by Albert Kielhorn; her work sewing army coats; suffering abuse from Kielhorn; hearing of her sister’s death; her life after liberation; the courses she attended through the ORT, which was a school set up in Berlin for Jewish survivors; her reasons for remaining in Berlin until 1993; owning her own high-end clothing store for two decades; the painting of a large Jewish star on her store once in the post-war years on the anniversary of Kristallnacht; her four marriages; moving to the United States to be with her fourth husband; and her life in Boca Raton, FL.
    Interviewee
    Jenny Brody
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2015 October 08

    Physical Details

    Language
    German English
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org

    Keywords & Subjects

    Corporate Name
    World ORT Union

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Jenny Brody on October 8, 2015.
    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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    2023-08-28 09:14:25
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