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Oral history interview with Jeanette Rothschild

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.872 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0872

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    Oral history interview with Jeanette Rothschild

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    Interview Summary
    Jeanette Rothschild (née Fernbacher), born on September 13, 1898 in Gossmannsdorf, Germany, discusses going to school in a nunnery in Straubing, Germany; the local Jewish girls and lack of antisemitism in the school and town; her family’s successful farming business; her extended family members; her experience during World War I; living in Berlin, Germany once she was married and the Jewish community there; the entrance of the Nazis in 1933; being able to keep her store until Kristallnacht 1938; the Nazis taking her husband and her trying to find him; her husband's internment in Oranienburg for 3-4 weeks; the return of her husband and him not being the same; going to England to escape Nazism; her husband being taken as an enemy alien to a camp in England; and going to the United States and adjusting to the new life.
    Interviewee
    Jeanette Rothschild
    Interviewer
    Jerry Freimark
    Date
    interview:  1997 July 24
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound recording : WAV.

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. The interview is part of Project Kabed which was produced by Jerry M. Freimark between 1997-2012 and donated to Gratz College.
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    2023-11-16 08:41:15
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