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en Interview with Elsa Davidsohn, conducted by Jens Michelsen on July 24, 2001 [in excerpts], FZH/WdE 433 https://keydocuments.net/source/jgo:source-262 Institute for the History of the German Jews Online Ressource Elsa Davidsohn was born as Elsa Coper on July 8, 1903 in Berlin. Her parents ran a store selling ready-to-wear clothing, where Elsa Coper also worked after her apprenticeship as a dressmaker, taking over the business after her father’s death in 1929. In 1930 she married and a few years later, she operated a larger clothing business in Berlin-Friedrichshain. After the business had been destroyed during the November Pogrom in 1938, her husband, who was particularly at risk, fled to England; Elsa Davidsohn managed to escape on the last emigration transport in October 1939 to Palestine, where she reunited with her husband in 1945. Following his death, in 1958, she returned to Germany with her friend Senta Levy, choosing Hamburg, Levy's birthplace, to settle down. Elsa Davidsohn died there on April, 13, 2006 at the age of 102. She gave the following interview in 2001. More interviews from the Workshop of Memory can be found here