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Oral history interview with Juta Bergman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.603.5 | RG Number: RG-50.637.0005

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    Oral history interview with Juta Bergman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Juta Bergman, born in 1927 in Germany; describes being Bratslav Hasidic; being deported in 1933 to Poland with her Polish-born parents; her father’s death in 1934; attending a public school; life in Łódź, Poland; the German invasion in September 1939; having to wear the yellow badge indicating she was a Jew; her education in the ghetto; rations in the ghetto; life in the ghetto as a child; working with other children in a workshop; learning about sex from an older friend; how it was forbidden to gather more than three or five people and disobeying this restriction; being involved in a Zionist organization and distancing herself from her home; her mother’s belief that the war would end soon; attending Rumkowski’s speech in the big square and feeling disdain for him; her brother informing her about the deportation of their mother and grandmother; witnessing the murder of a young girl; her mother escaping from a camp and returning to the ghetto; surviving several camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning to Łódź; and getting married to a Łódź ghetto survivor.
    Interviewee
    Mrs. Jutta Bergman
    Interviewer
    Ms. Teresa A. Pollin
    Date
    interview:  2005 March 20

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Topical Term
    Concentration camp inmates. Curfews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish children--Crimes against--Poland. Jewish children--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jewish youth--Poland--Societies and clubs. Jews--Education--Poland--Łódź. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Jews--Persecutions--Germany. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Rationing--Poland. Sex instruction--Poland--Łódź. Star of David badges. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland. Zionists. Women--Personal narratives.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Associate Curator Teresa Pollin conducted the interview with Juta Bergman in Israel on March 20, 2005 for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Give Me Your Children: Voices from the Lodz Ghetto" exhibition.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:20:13
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