Sigrid Lorenzen

Abstract

Around the same time that I received Gretel’s letter, I also got one from her energetic daughter, Sigrid, who said she had read the article about my research and had sent it on to her mother. After the short and painfully intense interview with her mother, Sigrid wrote to me with a question and a favor. She wanted permission to make a copy of her mother’s interview and asked if I would do it; otherwise, she would make a copy if I brought her the taped interview. I wanted to meet with Sigrid, not only because of her amusing, forthright character but because she was so engrossed in the repercussions of her mother’s past. I surmised that Sigrid could reveal more information than her mother had.

“The Hitler ideology was stronger than my life.”