[T1S1] Respondent provides information on parents and brother: father, Ernest, born Gottingen, Germany, 1898; mother, born Hamburg, Germany, 1903; brother Herbert, born Augsburg, Germany, 1933. Respondent notes father 16th generation Rabbi; describes synagogue in Augsburg; damaged 1938, survived WW II, restored; details parents courtship and marriage. Respondent mentions after arrival in Springfield, MO, father taught history at Drury College; mother teacher; provides information on paternal grandfather. Respondent explains Judaism in Germany: liberal; recalls services in synagogue, notes life centered around it. Respondent details witnessing Kristallnacht, 1938; discusses leaving Germany.
