Archive Description | Oral History - Inge-Ruth Sachs Fletcher
In 1938 Inge-Ruth Sachs was a ten-year-old living in Breslau, Germany, when her uncle, Ernst Prinz, was arrested by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. In this interview she relays his story of rescue and eventual immigration to Sugar Land, Texas, where he worked for Imperial Sugar.
Ms. Fletcher’s family escaped on the last ship Jews could take out of Germany in 1939. They immigrated to Shanghai which was the only port still open to Jewish refugees. She tells her story of living in Japanese-occupied Shanghai for 10 years before immigrating to the United States. 22 Pages |
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