INT: We usually finish Suzanne by asking about reflections, and we’d like to finish with a positive as well. So when you look back, because you have obviously had a wonderful, I think, academic career, what would you say is the highlight? SU: Of my academic career? INT: And your life in general. SU: Well… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman – Reflection On Life
INT: And so where did you study? When did you decide to study…? SU: Well I went to this proper school in Welwyn Garden City and did two years there, managed to get advanced German and Biology, I think. I had to do Maths, you know, from scratch and Chemistry and eventually I got into… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman – Settling In
And so that would be about ’45, ’44/’45 so the Russians are in. So now she made contact with London, my parents. So we were in contact again and now was the business how do we get out? So she went every day and put in petitions here and there and I suppose our luck… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman – Immigration
INT: Did you see soldiers? SU : Well you see what we had in Hungary was an Arrow Cross, special sort of branch of the gendarmerie, they were Nazis but the regime was under István Horthy who was in charge of the land. I remember distinctly when the Germans came into Budapest because what happened… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman – Life During The War
INT: Good morning Suzanne, today is the 31st may 2013 and we are here to interview Suzanne Ullmann, and generally what we do is we ask what your name is at birth and where you where born. SU : I was born in Budapest in 1935, 8th of December and my name….Hungarian name is Ullmann… Continue Reading Suzanne Ullman – Life Before The War