Leni Mittelacher transcript

Collection — Container: Single Folder Collections - 2005 Box 3 (05.0062-05.0100), Folder: 05.0080 - Folder 1

Identifier: 05.0080

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a transcript of an interview with Leni Mittelacher, who lived in Marburg, Germany during World War II and Allied occupation.

Dates

1923-1953
Other: Majority of material found within 1932-1953
Other: Date acquired: 04/26/2005
Other: Date accessioned: 2020-06-01

Creator

Mittelacher, Leni (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Biographical or Historical Information

Magdalena Katharina "Leni" Mittelacher was born on June 14, 1923, in the village of Ulfen, Germany. She later, in 1932, moved to Marburg, Germany near Frankfurt. Her mother was able to prevent her and her siblings from joining the Hitler Youth programs. Mittelacher was hired by the County Administrator as a secretary in 1941. Her family had trouble finding food because of the food shortages, but they were able to start their own small garden in 1944. The American occupation in 1945 helped with food distribution to alleviate the shortage. Immediately after the war, she recounted when the American soldiers dropped leaflets in the town about the Concentration Camps. One of Mittlelacher’s brothers died on the Eastern front in Russia and her other brother was Incarcerated by the French. In 1953 she met her husband, Martin Mittelacher, in Marburg. They later moved to the United States, and settled down in Jacksonville, Florida. Mittelacher passed on March 12, 2018.

Extent

1 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

This collection was donated by Joan Denman. The collection was acquired by the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience on April 26, 2005.

Custodial History

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Related Materials

Martin Mittelacher interview transcript 05.0081

http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_05_0081

Subjects

Germany (West)--History Subject Source: Local sources
Germany--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hitler Jugend
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Jacksonville (Fla.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Marburg (Germany) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Germany Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
World War, 1939-1945--Germany Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings