[T1S1] birthplace, Breuna, Germany; parents and sister perish in the Holocaust; her escape from Germany to the United States to stay with an aunt and uncle who immigrated before 1940; persecution felt as only Jewish child in school; father's occupation, storekeeper; German boycott against Jewish stores; ancestors from Spain; 1938, eviction from their house; detailed events of the Kristallnacht; family survives by farming; June, 1942, her last contact with parents; recollections of family life, holidays; discussion of arriving in Seattle, WA, and cross-country trip to New York to relatives; employment as a nursemaid in New York; description of childhood in Germany; courtship and marriage to her husband, Steven Meyer in 1946.