IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIONAL LIFE STORIES LIVING MEMORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY Joan Salter Interviewed by Melissa Raphael C410/079 IMPORTANT © The British Library Board. Please refer to the Oral History curators at the British Library prior to any publication or broadcast from this document. Oral History The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB United Kingdom +44 (0)20 7412 7404
[email protected] Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this transcript, however no transcript is an exact translation of the spoken word, and this document is intended to be a guide to the original recording, not replace it. Should you find any errors please inform the Oral History curators. BRITISH LIBRARY NATIONAL SOUND ARCHIVE NATIONAL LIFE STORY COLLECTION INTERVIEW SUMMARY SHEET ____________________________________________________________ Ref. No.: C410/079Playback ____________________________________________________________ Collection Title: The Living Memory of the Jewish Community ____________________________________________________________ Interviewee's surname: SALTER Title: Mrs Interviewee's forenames: JOAN Date of Birth: February l940 Sex: Female ____________________________________________________________ Date(s) of recording: l2/4/90 & 24/4/90 Location of interview: Interviewee's home Name of interviewer: Melissa Raphael Type of recorder: Marantz ____________________________________________________________ Additional material: ____________________________________________________________ Copyright/clearance: Full clearance ____________________________________________________________ F417 Side A My name is Joan Salter. I was born Fanny Zimetbaum, in Brussels, Belgium, in February l940. My parents were both Polish Jews. My mother came from Warsaw, where she was the youngest child of quite a large traditional Jewish family. She says her father was a sort of minor civil servant. But a lot of my mother's memories I take with a pinch of salt, because she is inclined to romanticise, as so many people from Poland do.