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Oral history interview with Seema Zimmerman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.601 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0601

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    Oral history interview with Seema Zimmerman

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    Interview Summary
    Seema Zimmerman (née Rifkin), born in 1927 in Shanghai, China, discusses her mother arriving in Shanghai from Mongolia around 1917; her father leaving Minsk, Russia (now in Belarus) for Shanghai in 1918; the Shanghai Jewish (Kadoorie) school; her father’s barber shop; the rareness of marriages between Jews and non-Jews; the arrival of many refugees between 1936 and 1941; the Japanese occupation of Shanghai; Japanese troops conducting exercises in their compound yard; drunk Japanese soldiers walking into their rooms; internment of the Americans and English; meeting her future husband, an American soldier, at a postwar dance; working for the American Signal Corps as a tele-typist; and immigrating to the United States to join her future husband in 1947.
    Interviewee
    Seema Zimmerman
    Interviewer
    Ms. Eva Abraham-Podietz
    Date
    interview:  1999 October 16
    Geography
    creation: Philadelphia (Pa.)
    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 (60 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 08:39:34
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