We kept our heads personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Dodo Liebmann
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
In 1994 the United States Holocaust Research Institute received the memoir.
Scope and Content
Describes the Dodo Liebmann’s (b. 1906 in Berlin, Germany) life in Germany; her membership in the Communist Party and role in smuggling and disseminating underground literature; her and her husband's immigration to England in 1937; her classification as a war-time alien and internment on the Isle of Man; World War II's end and the Dodo's naturalization as a British citizen; her work in physics; and her compensation from Germany.
People
- Liebmann, Dodo.
Subjects
- Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.
- Communist parties.
- England--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature.
- Aliens--Great Britain.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women physicists.
- Germany
- Jews, German--England.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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