Document Type
Oral History
Publication Date
9-5-1993
Abstract
Copyright Steve Hochstadt. This transcript is provided for individual research purposes only; for all other uses, including publication, reproduction and quotation beyond fair use, permission must be obtained in writing from: Steve Hochstadt, c/o The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, 70 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, Maine 04240-6018.
Recommended Citation
Hochstadt, Steve, "Lehmeier, Ilse and Karin Pardo oral history interview" (1993). Shanghai Jewish Oral History Collection. 57.
https://scarab.bates.edu/shanghai_oh/57
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Scope and Content Note
Ilse Cassel Lehmeier was born in Berlin in the early 1930s. She and her two sisters were sent by their parents to live with relatives in Sweden in early 1939. The parents then went to Shanghai, and in late 1940, the children travelled across the Soviet Union to join them. Lehmeier attended the Kadoorie School in Hongkew. She now lives in New York.
Karin Zacharias Pardo was born in Königsberg in 1931. Shortly before leaving for Shanghai, her family moved to Berlin and she attended a boarding school in Hannover. The family left in 1939 on the "Victoria" from Genoa. Along with two other families they met on the boat, they started the "Wayside Diele" restaurant on Wayside Road. Pardo attended the Kadoorie School and was a member of the Girl Guides. Her father, a lawyer, also started the cigar store "Zigarrengeschäft Zacharias," created a lending library from his own collection, "Das Gute Buch," and worked with the Schiedsgericht of the Jewish community. The family came to the United States in 1947. Karin Pardo is a chemist who lives in Chicago.