Oral history interview with Werner Bergh

Oral History | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2019.125.26 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0026

Overview

Interview Summary: Werner Bergh discusses his early life in Berlin, Germany; the arrest of his father and his imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp; leaving Germany with his parents in 1938 and going to Shanghai, China; the large Jewish refugee community in Shanghai; immigrating to the United States with his parents after the war; and settling in Des Moines, Iowa.
Interviewee: Warner J. Bergh
Interviewer: Esther Hockenberg
Date: interview: 1981 April 08
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society

Physical Details

Language: English
Extent: 1 sound cassette.

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Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Antisemitism. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Germany--Berlin. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. Jews--Social life and customs. Men--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--China--Shanghai. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
Geographic Name: Berlin (Germany) Des Moines (Iowa) Shanghai (China) United States--Emigration and immigration.
Personal Name: Bergh, Werner. Bergh, Hennie Mattisson. Bergh, Walter.
Corporate Name: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The Iowa Jewish Historical Society donated audio and video recordings from the IJHS archive to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2019.
Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive

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