Document Type
Oral History
Publication Date
1-16-1995
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: The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, 70 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, Maine 04240-6018.
Recommended Citation
Hochstadt, Steve, "Wulff, Evalore oral history interview" (1995). Shanghai Jewish Community Oral History Collection. 72.
https://scarab.bates.edu/shanghai_oh/72
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Scope and Content Note
[2nd part of interview dates to May 19, 1995]
Evalore Hess was born in Dessau in 1924, daughter of Wolfgang and Thea Danziger Hess. After they divorced, Thea Hess became partner of Richard Paulick, a Bauhaus architect. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, she and her younger brother Peter were sent to France, where they lived for about a year, and then joined her parents in Shanghai. She attended an English private school, and worked for the law firm Ellis and Hayes. Her mother married Paulick in 1941. After leaving Shanghai, she lived in Paris, the moved to East Germany in 1952, where she worked as a translator and government representative. She married Gunther Wulff in 1952, and they had two daughters, Sylvia Wulff (1953-2019) and Renée Westerheide (1954- ). Evalore Wulff died in 1997.