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Martin and Susie Friedlander interview and transcript, February 21, 1990

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SJOH/1

Scope and contents note

From the Series:

Series is comprised of audiotapes and printed transcripts of the interviews.

Dates

  • February 21, 1990

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Most of the interviews are in English but a number of them are in German.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the administrative files is restricted and also to some of the interviews. Contact staff for further information.

Biographical note

Martin Friedlander was born in 1913. He left Berlin for Shanghai in April 1939, on a German ship. He worked supplying food to the Jewish camp kitchens in Hongkew, as a parachute rigger for the American Army, and as an interior decorator. Susie Friedlander left Berlin with her parents in March 1939, at the age of 14, and sailed to Shanghai from Genoa on the Conte Biancomano. She worked as a nanny and in an American PX. They met in Shanghai after the war and were married after coming to the United States in 1949. Martin Friedlander died on December 10, 2009.

Extent

3 audiocassette(s)

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Repository

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