Interview with Alice Dreifuss Goldstein, April 17, 2019

Interview Summary

Alice Dreifuss Goldstein recounts growing up as a Jewish child in Kenzingen, Germany during Nazism and the culminating Holocaust. Dreifuss Goldstein and her parents left Germany in 1939 following her father’s imprisonment in Dachau as a result of Kristallnacht. She details their arrival in New York, her and her parents' adjustments to American life and settling down in Connecticut, all the while trying to keep in touch with her family still in Germany throughout World War II and the Holocaust. The latter part of the interview focuses on Dreifuss Goldstein’s experience as a Holocaust educator for the past 30 years, and her multiple visits to Germany post-Holocaust.

Interview Keyword

Holocaust Anti-Semitism World War II WWII Nazi Germany Refugees Jewish people Judaism Assimilation Education

Interview LC Subject

Kenzingen (Germany) Genealogy Families. Jewish families. Judaism Germany Childhood Immigration Religion Holidays. Jewish children World War, 1939-1945 Antisemitism Emigration and immigration. Nazi concentration camps. Internment camps

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