Overview
- Interview Summary
- Doris Kumar discusses her family life, education, participation in the Hitler Youth (Bund Deutscher Mädel) and work experience under Nazi rule living in a suburb of Berlin from 1933 to 1945. She recalls witnessing the destruction and looting of Jewish-owned shops in Spandau during Kristallnacht, the sudden disappearance of a beloved Jewish family doctor and Jewish classmates, as well as the harrowing experience of attending a concert in Berlin that was disrupted by Allied bombing.
- Interviewee
- Doris Kumar
- Interviewer
- Francine K. Rattner
- Date
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interview:
2022 January 21-2022 February 03
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Francine Rattner
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MPEG-4.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. Hitler Youth. Girls--Germany. Refugees--Germany. Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945. Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Berlin. School children--Germany. Police--German. Personal narratives--German. Elections--Germany--20th century. Education--Germany. Women--Personal narratives. Antisemitism (Germany) Antisemitism in education--Germany. Bombing, Aerial--Germany--Berlin.
- Geographic Name
- Berlin (Germany).
- Personal Name
- Kumar, Doris.
- Corporate Name
- Hitler Youth
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Francine Rattner donated her interview with Doris Kumar (née Schultz) to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2022.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:10:07
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn734662
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