Oral History Interview with Jeanette Rothschild
Jeanette Rothschild (née Fernbacher), born on September 13, 1898 in Gossmannsdorf, Germany, discusses going to school in a nunnery in Straubing, Germany; the local Jewish girls and lack of antisemitism in the school and town; her family’s successful farming business; her extended family members; her experience during World War I; living in Berlin, Germany once she was married and the Jewish community there; the entrance of the Nazis in 1933; being able to keep her store until Kristallnacht 1938; the Nazis taking her husband and her trying to find him; her husband's internment in Oranienburg for 3-4 weeks; the return of her husband and him not being the same; going to England to escape Nazism; her husband being taken as an enemy alien to a camp in England; and going to the United States and adjusting to the new life.
Date: | 07/24/1997 |
Interviewer: | Jerry Freimark |
Interviewee: | Jeanette Rothschild |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Farms--Germany. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives. Jewish businesspeople. Jewish property. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Germany--Berlin. Jews--Germany--Straubing. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Kristallnacht, 1938. World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives. Women--Personal narratives. Berlin (Germany) Gossmannsdorf am Main (Germany) Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. Straubing (Germany) United States--Emigration and immigration. Rothschild, Jeanette, 1898- |
Location: | Goßmannsdorf am Main, Germany Straubing, Germany Berlin, Germany England, United Kingdom USA |
Permalink: | https://hoha.digitalcollections.gratz.edu/item/oral-history-interview-with-jeanette-rothschild/ |
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