Document Type
Oral History
Publication Date
6-14-2011
Creation Date
2011-06-14
Collection Name
Publisher Information
Florida Holocaust Museum in conjunction with University of South Florida Tampa Library and Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center
Keywords
Austria, Crimes against humanity, Dixon, Elisabeth N., Florida, Genocide, Great Britain, Holocaust survivors, 1939-1945, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jewish refugees, Kindertransports (Rescue operations), Knight, Hans, Religious life, Monastery, English Channel
Abstract
Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Elisabeth N. Dixon. Dixon was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928, and grew up in a Vienna suburb called Mödling with her brother, Hans Knight. Her parents were divorced when she was very young, so she alternated between households until her mother arranged for her to board at a convent. After the Anschluss in 1938, her father grew concerned for his children's safety and arranged for them to leave Austria on a Kindertransport. Dixon and her brother were taken to Halifax, England, where they lived with a local family for eight years. Their father was killed in the Holocaust; their mother, who was not Jewish, was not close to the children and remained in Germany after the war. Dixon immigrated to the United States when she was twenty-one, married a friend of her brother's, and had four children. In this interview, she recounts her childhood experiences, describing how her difficult family situation has affected her life.
Physical Information
1 sound file (220 min.) : digital, MP3 file + 1 transcript (54 p.)
Rights Information
Scholar Commons Citation
Dixon, Elisabeth N. (Interviewee) and Patti, Chris J. (Interviewer), "Elisabeth N. Dixon oral history interview by Chris Patti, June 14, 2011" (2011). Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center Oral Histories. Paper 192.
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/hgstud_oh/192
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