Lisbeth Loewenberg interview and transcript, April 21, 1989
Scope and contents note
Series is comprised of audiotapes and printed transcripts of the interviews.
Dates
- April 21, 1989
Language of Materials
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
Lisbeth Loewenberg and her mother sailed to Shanghai from Trieste in 1940, when she was eighteen. Her father had already sailed there in 1939. He died in Shanghai of cancer in 1942. She worked in Shanghai as a secretary. There she married Bruno Loewenberg from Berlin, who had spent thirteen months in Buchenwald. He ran a lending library on Ward Road. In 1948 they emigrated to the United States and settled in San Francisco, where Bruno opened a bookstore and Lisbeth worked for Collier's magazine. Lisbeth Loewenberg lives in San Francisco.
Extent
1 audiocassette(s)
Creator
- From the Collection: Hochstadt, Steve, 1948- (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Repository
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