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Interview Summary
Interview with Hilde Himmelweit, born February 1918 in Berlin into a prosperous assimilated German-Jewish family of factory managers and newspaper owners. She describes the apartment in Berlin, her time at school and her friends; her memories of the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitic episodes at school; her parents’ growing worry leading to her 4-week visit to relatives in England in 1933 and the decision that she should attend school in England the following year. She talks about her unhappiness during her time at the British public boarding school – the uniform, rules, and the cold, terrible food – but of the kindness of her new English family and school friends; her awareness of developments in Germany gained from annual holiday visits to Berlin; her time as a student at Cambridge studying modern languages and then psychology, followed by research work at a war neurosis centre and her Ph.D. After the war she worked as an educational psychologist at the Maudsley and King’s College, and then lecturing at the LSE until her retirement in 1983. She talks about her perceptions of the differences between pre-war German and more traditionally based British Jewry, and is still aware of being a refugee.

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