An Evening with Frieda Gordon Dilloo
“I was born in 1939 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in southern Germany. For the first 7 years of my life my family lived in Namlos, a small, remote village high in the Tyrolean Alps. 13 houses, a dangerous road, not a single motorized vehicle in the village. By age six, I knew all about avalanches and haying, but little about life in the big city. Food was scarce anyway, but especially at the end of the War. But at least I didn’t have to run into bomb shelters every night like so many of my age-mates had to do if they lived in the cities.
An Evening with Rita Goldhor
October 24, 2009
“I was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1927, and I am Jewish. At the time of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Germany, I was not yet 12 years old, so there was much I did not understand about the political situation. I have never been to Germany - except passing through on a train to Holland in March 1939, on my way to England as a Kindertransport child.”
Ralph Samuel
“I was born in Dresden, Germany in 1931 and in 1939 was sent alone on a Kindertransport to England to escape the Holocaust. I was educated in England including at the University of London, and the School of Economics, and at age 27 immigrated to the United States.
Since retirement, I have been on the Speakers Bureau of the Holocaust Center of Northern California speaking about the Holocaust and my experiences at Bay Area schools. I regularly speak to public and parochial schools, to single classes and general assemblies of 250 kids.”
Geschichtsabend zur 2. und 3. Welle der Frauenbewegung in Deutschland
June 26, 2009
We envision our Oral History Telling Evening as an interactive event. We will first talk about our own lives, experiences, and in what aspects they do (not) differ. Also, we are open to answering your questions and, of course, you are welcome to share your own experiences, thoughts, ideas and about similarities as well as differences between the women’s movements in Germany and the United States of America. Depending on participants’ preferences, our dialogue will be in German and/or in English.
An Evening with Mark “Leo” Horovitz
April 25, 2009
“I am Jewish. I left Germany via a Kindertransport in March 1939. I lived with an uncle's family in London from March 1939 through August 1939. I was then evacuated to Saint Albans, Herts., UK. where I lived with 5 different families. My parents also escaped to London and I lived with them starting in 1942. In 1944 I was evacuated again - to South Wales… ”