Schwarz, Lotte Oral History Interview
Bates College SCARAB Shanghai Jewish Oral History Collection Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library 6-11-1990 Schwarz, Lotte oral history interview Steve Hochstadt Follow this and additional works at: https://scarab.bates.edu/shanghai_oh SHANGHAI JEWISH COMMUNITY BATES COLLEGE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT LEWISTON, MAINE , _____________________________________________________________ _ LOTTE SCHWARZ SEAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA JUNE 11, 1990 Interviewer: Steve Hochstadt Transcription: Meredyth Muth Jessica Oas Stefanie Pearson Philip Pettis Steve Hochstadt © 2001 Lotte Schwarz and Steve Hochstadt Steve Hochstadt: But that's what I am interested in, so ... Lotte Schwarz: What I wanted to say is before I, before we went to Shanghai, and that was before I got married, I worked for the Hilfsverein. You know what the Hilfsverein, Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden? Hochstadt: Yes, many people have talked about it helping them to go ... Schwarz: Yeah. That's what we did and I worked there. I was a secretary for different provinces, for the province Hannover, W estfalen, Hessen-Kassel, different provinces. And my boss was a former lawyer, who couldn't go to, to the courts any more. You know they didn't let the Jews go into court any more. So, and he had a family with three little kids, so he was the first one, he got the, he was a representative for the Hilfsverein for the different provinces around Hannover. And I was his secretary. So he was kind of out, I mean, he was so depressed for everything, so I did most of the work. What we did was, most people came only in to, that we paid to get the money that they could go somewhere overseas, or overseas, or in the beginning, they could still go to England or France, if they had people there.
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