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Doris Grey interview and transcript, June 26, 1991

 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

  • June 26, 1991

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

Doris Grey was born in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, in 1912. She studied nursing and worked in Breslau, before moving to Berlin and becoming head nurse at the Krankenhaus der Jüdischen Gemeinde. In Berlin, she married William Cohn. On May 5, 1940, they left Berlin for Genoa, where they sailed to Shanghai on the "Conte Verde." She worked at the Emigrants Hospital in the Ward Road Heim as head nurse, while her husband continued his work as an art dealer. In January 1947 they left Shanghai on the "Marine Lynx" for the United States. After becoming widowed, she married Benny Grey, who survived the war in the Soviet Union. The live in California.

Extent

2 audiocassette(s)

Creator

Repository Details

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

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