Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Doris Lerner Baumgarten
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Doris Lerner Baumgarten
- Date:
- 2006
- Interviewer:
- Tannenbaum, Karen
- Interviewee:
- Baumgarten, Doris Lerner, 1930-
- Description:
- Doris Baumgarten tells the story of how her husband, Peter, and his family escaped Vienna in 1939 after the Nazi occupation of Austria. Peter and his brother, Hans, left on the Kindertransport and were taken in at a boarding school in Bournemouth, England. Their mother worked in London as a maid, but was able to join her boys in Bournemouth when the school hired her to clean their facilities. Their father was in Sweden during the German annexation and was unable to return to Vienna because of an invalid passport. Instead, he made his way to New York, arriving in the United States a year before his wife and children.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Baumgarten, Doris Lerner, 1930- -- Interviews, Baumgarten, Peter, 1926-2000
- Topical Subject:
- Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Kindertransport (Rescue operations) -- Great Britain, Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- History, World War, 1939-1945 -- Austria -- Vienna, World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue, Jewish refugees -- Great Britain, Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-317
- Date Digital:
- 2011-8
- Digitization Specifications:
- Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.
- Internet Media Type:
- application/pdf;audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Copyright © Jewish Heritage Collection
- Access Information:
- For more information, contact Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 220771
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