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: The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, 70 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, Maine 04240-6018.
Recommended Citation
Hochstadt, Steve, "Neumann family oral history interview" (1993). Shanghai Jewish Community Oral History Collection. 73.
https://scarab.bates.edu/shanghai_oh/73
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Scope and Content Note
Alfred Neumann (1908-1995) was born in Elbing. He lived in Berlin and married Gerda Seeliger (1910-1996), a nurse born in Stuhm, in 1931. They had three children, Gunter, Hannelore (1932- ), and Sigrid (1936- ). After Gerda’s father Sigismund Seeliger (1885- ), a butcher, was arrested, the family sailed to Shanghai in 1939 on the Scharnhorst. Using the machines that Sigismund Seeliger brought with them, they opened the Alfred Neumann Wurstfabrik at 295-297 Wayside Road, where they all lived. In 1947, the family sailed to the United States on the General Gordon and settled in Chicago, where Alfred Neumann worked for Vienna Sausage.