
Lore Oppenheim
Nashville, Tennessee
Born: 1922 Wiesbaden, Germany
Refugee: Wiesbaden, Germany
“I’m very glad I fought for that education. No matter how adverse the conditions are, if you want education badly enough you really can get it.” Lore Oppenheim was expelled from 5th grade because of an antisemitic law, but then attended a 2-person Jewish boarding school. The school closed; Lore got a tutor. In 1938 Lore attended a Jewish school in Frankfurt. The day after Kristallnacht a terrified Lore made her way home to Wiesbaden. She found her father and uncle in hiding; their business destroyed; the synagogue ashes. The teenager worked and trained in an orphanage, then in health care, and narrowly escaped a labor camp.”