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Oral history interview with Hermine Liska

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.317 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0540

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    Oral history interview with Hermine Liska

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Hermine Liska describes her experience as an eight-year old farm girl in Carinthia (Kärnten), Austria at the time of the Nazi Anschluss; how her parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses and very anti-Nazi; the pressure she was subjected to in school to join the Hitler Youth and to give the Nazi salute; how in 1941, after her parents refused to sign a pledge to raise their children according to the Nazi ideology, she was taken away and sent to a Nazi children’s home on the mountain near Feldkirchen; the ways in which she continued to resist teachers’ pressures to conform; being sent to a convent in Munich, where she remained until April 1944; the ways in which her parents, particularly her mother, had prepared her for these trials; attributing her moral strength to their teachings and her faith in God; her brother’s experience at Dachau; and how she currently lectures in schools and encourages children to be strong and to resist peer pressure and xenophobia.
    Interviewee
    Hermine Liska
    Interviewer
    Dr. William F. Meinecke
    Date
    interview:  2009 September 29

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    2 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Liska, Hermine.
    Corporate Name
    Hitler Youth

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Hermine Liska on September 29, 2009. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:27
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