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en Interview with Ruth Dräger, née Geistlich, conducted by Linde Apel, on September 13, 2007 [in excerpts]. https://keydocuments.net/source/jgo:source-268 Institute for the History of the German Jews Online Ressource Ruth Dräger, née Geistlich, was born in Hamburg in 1928 and she initially grew up in the Jewish Paulinenstift girls's orphanage on Laufgraben. After the Talmud Tora School was closed in 1941, she had to do forced labor in a gunpowder factory at the age of 13. In 1943, she was deported to Theresienstadt along with her mother, her sister and an aunt. All four survived and returned to Hamburg in August 1945, where they lived from then on. In the 2007 interview with the Workshop of Memory Werkstatt der Erinnerung, she talks about her impressions and experiences upon her return to Hamburg. Further interviews from the Workshop of Memory Werkstatt der Erinnerung can be found here.