Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Margot Strauss Freudenberg

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Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Margot Strauss Freudenberg

Interviewer:

Grossman, Michael Samuel

Interviewee:

Freudenberg, Margot Strauss, 1907-

Description:

Margot Strauss Freudenberg recalls life in Germany before and after Hitler came to power. She was born in Hanover in 1907 to a family that was proud to be Jewish, but limited religious observance to the High Holidays. Margot describes the debate among Jewish Germans, including her own parents, about the necessity of leaving Nazi Germany, and her struggle to get her family out of the country. They eventually escaped to Charleston, South Carolina, where Margot became a well-known community activist.

Collection Title:

Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories

Contributing Institution:

College of Charleston Libraries

Media Type:

Oral Histories

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Freudenberg, Margot Strauss, 1907- -- Interviews

Topical Subject:

Immigrants -- United States -- History, Kristallnacht, 1938, Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Identity, Antisemitism -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jews -- Germany -- Hanover -- Social life and customs, Jewish merchants -- Germany -- Westphalia -- History, and World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany –- Berlin

Geographic Subject:

Lowcountry

S.C. County:

Charleston County (S.C.)

Shelving Locator:

MSS 1035-122

Date Digital:

2011-05

Digitization Specifications:

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Internet Media Type:

application/pdf;audio/mpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Digital resource copyright 2011, The College of Charleston. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.

Admin ID:

220759