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Boppard
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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
Date of Interview:
01/02/97
Interviewed By:
Raymond Kaplan

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Hilde G., who was born in Boppard, Germany in 1926. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending a Catholic school until 1936, when the nuns could no longer guarantee her safety; her older sister attending school in Cologne; her parents' decision to send her to England; her mother accompanying her to Spain (her father wept at their departure in Cologne); living with a Jewish family in Nottingham; attending private school; working for her foster parents from age fourteen due to the labor shortage caused by the war; hearing from her parents in 1941 after a two year silence, and learning they had arrived in the United States; joining them in 1944; marriage in 1947; establishing a family; and visits to England and Germany in 1969. Ms. G. show photographs.

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