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Gabriele Schiff

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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1924 and raised in nearby Herford. Mrs. L. recalls her comfortable upper-middle-class childhood; playing in her father's tobacco warehouse; a non-Jewish girlfriend who refused to see her after joining a Nazi organization; a family employee's role in her home's looting on Kristallnacht; her father's return from incarceration at Sachsenhausen; being sent by her parents on a chidren's transport to Holland in 1939; and living in an orphanage with 100 other refugee children. She details the 1940 German attack; a prominent Christian Dutchwoman who arranged the group's escape on a freighter; interrogation by authorities in Liverpool; internment in a billiard hall in Wigan; losing contact with her parents when they were deported; a Dutch doctor who helped her obtain a nursing job; an old family friend who obtained a copy of her birth certificate; emigration to America in 1946; marriage to a German Jewish doctor who had left in 1933; becoming a social worker; reconciling with her childhood girlfriend; and a postwar return to Herford.
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