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en Interview with Franziska Mayer, conducted by Beate Meyer, on December 14, 1992 [in excerpts] https://keydocuments.net/source/jgo:source-267 Institute for the History of the German Jews Online Ressource Franziska Mayer was born on July 4, 1914 into a merchant’s family in Hamburg. She attended the Firgau-Lyzeum (a girl’s secondary school) on Sierichstrasse and then completed an apprenticeship as a weaver. In 1938, she managed to escape to Peru, where one of her brothers was already living and where her second brother emigrated later. Her parents were deported and murdered. In Peru, Franziska Mayer worked in the textiles industry and lived with her brothers and their families. Due to the armed struggle of the “Shining Path” guerrilla organization, she returned to Hamburg in 1989 at the age of 75. She moved into a Jewish retirement home, where she passed in 1994. Two years before her death, she gave an interview to the Workshop of Memory in which she also spoke about her remigration. Further interviews from the Workshop of Memory can be found here.