life of a social activist
Subtitle: Germany, San Francisco, the Philippines, and Taiwan
By: Edith Simon Coliver ; with an introduction by Haydn Williams. An interview conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1998-2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Glaser, Eleanor.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2004
Subjects: Coliver, Edith Simon, 1922-2001. -- Interviews.; Asia Foundation.; Stanford Research Institute.; Radio Free Asia.; United States. Office of War Information.; Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Political activists -- United States -- Interviews.; Philippines -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Taiwan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University of California Source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: Life in Karlsruhe, Germany, impact of Naziism; voyage to a new life, 1938: life in New York and San Francisco, father's employment and children's education, U.C. Berkeley, wartime experiences; start of career at Office of War Information and United Nations Organizing Conference, San Francisco; work as interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, 1945-1946; return to United States: speaking engagements and marriage; work at Stanford Research Institute, Radio Free Asia; founding and work for the Asia Foundation, work in Philippines and Taiwan.

clippings; copies of letters from the Philippines, 1979-1984; copy of May 1999 speech at International House; program for Asia Foundation program in her honor, January 2002.