Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II: Interview with Hella Mears Hueg

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II: Interview with Hella Mears Hueg (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Hella Mears Hueg was born in Velbert, Germany. During World War II she moved to Poland, and then came back to Germany just prior to the end of the war. She attended school in Cambridge, England and Heidelberg University in Germany. Hueg got a job in the German Theatre and acted until coming to the United States. She married and continued to travel, visiting her family in Germany many times. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Growing up in a German family; political activity of her parents; exposure to anti-Semitism; exposure to the war with England; moving to Poland and back to Germany; suffering in postwar Germany; going to school in England; going to school in Heidelberg; life as an actress; being sponsored to live in the United States; attending the University of Minnesota; marriage to businessman Norman Mears; traveling the world; visiting her family in Germany; Germany's postwar rebuilding process.

Dates

• 11/06/2007 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Hueg, Hella Mears
• interviewer: Fogerty, James E.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 115
• Accession Number: AV2008.26.16

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part II' <OH 115>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassettes 44 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 120 minutes length

Subjects

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