[T1S1] birthplace, Breuna, Germany; parents and sister perish in the Holocaust; her escape from Germany to the United States to stay with an aunt and uncle who immigrated before 1940; persecution felt as only Jewish child in school; father's occupation, storekeeper; German boycott against Jewish stores; ancestors from Spain; 1938, eviction from their house; detailed events of the Kristallnacht; family survives by farming; June, 1942, her last contact with parents; recollections of family life, holidays; discussion of arriving in Seattle, WA, and cross-country trip to New York to relatives; employment as a nursemaid in New York; description of childhood in Germany; courtship and marriage to her husband, Steven Meyer in 1946.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.307_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.307
"Meyer, Irma - March 11, 1987" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Meyer, Irma - March 11, 1987
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Irma Meyer, a German immigrant who escaped from the Holocaust in 1940 by way of the Siberian Express; birth year, 1923.
Contributor
Meyer, Irma (interviewee), Silberman, Marjorie;Stern, Mark (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1987-03-11
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.307
Rights
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