Henry Lippmann oral history interview by Rosemary Block

MLOH 484

fonds

10 April 2003

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

958902

Digitised

1 sound cassette (1 hr.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Henry Lippmann was one of the Jewish boys from the Ort (Organisation for Rehabilitation and Training) school in Berlin who were taken to England after the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938. The boys stayed at a Kitchener Camp in southern England for six months before their new Ort school was established in Leeds.

Reference:
The Jewish Chronicle Online, 10 December 2010. http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/42423/british-ort-solves-refugee-mystery (accessed 29.2.2012)

Henry Lippmann interviewed by Rosemary Block about the essays 'Von Deuschland nach England', written by the ORT boys in the Kitchener Camp, England.

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Copy available at CY MLOH 484/1

Interviewer: Block, Rosemary
Interviewee: Lippmann, Henry, 1921-2004

Note on box says the ORT boys were encouraged to write these essays by their teacher Max Abraham.