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Oral history interview with Sonya Nathan

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.431 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0431

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    Oral history interview with Sonya Nathan

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    Interview Summary
    Sonya Nathan (née Alpern), born circa 1936 in Freiburg, Germany, discusses her family’s forced relocation to Zbonszyn, Poland in late 1938; going on a Kindertransport with two of her siblings to England on the steam merchant boat Warszawa; reconnecting with her parents and infant sibling on the boat; life in England; multiple separations of the family; being together on Canvey Island, later Stepney Green; being evacuated to Paignton in South Devon; meeting her husband through a Zionist group in London; immigrating to Israel in 1970; German neighbors returning her father's watch; and her sense of multiple nationalities.
    Interviewee
    Sonya Nathan
    Interviewer
    Ms. Eva Abraham-Podietz
    Date
    interview:  1989 May 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

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    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:38:33
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