Oral History Interview with Inge Karo
Inge Karo (née Heiman), born in 1926 in Essen, Germany, describes her father, who was a part owner of a business; her parents’ active participation in the Jewish community and belonging to a conservative synagogue; being part of a non-Zionist youth organization and educated in a school for Jewish children until the schools were closed by the Nazis; the effects of the Nuremberg laws; the effects of Kristallnacht in 1938 on the Jewish community of Essen and her family; the confiscation of her family’s home; being affected by the pervasive Nazi propaganda and persecution; her family’s attempts to escape from Germany to the United States; immigrating with her family to the US in December 1939; and life in the United States as a refugee, including her experiences in public school.
Date: | 10/10/1984 |
Interviewer: | Janice Booker |
Interviewee: | Inge Karo |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Americanization. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives. Jewish refugees--United States. Jewish youth--Germany--Societies and clubs. Jews, German--United States. Jews--Germany--Essen. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. Kristallnacht, 1938. Nazi propaganda--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--German Americans. Women--Personal narratives. Essen (Germany) Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. United States--Emigration and immigration. Karo, Inge, 1926- |
Location: | Essen, Germany USA |
Permalink: | https://hoha.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/oral-history-interview-with-inge-karo/ |
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