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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Zierer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1295 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1295

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    Oral history interview with Elizabeth Zierer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Elizabeth Zierer discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria and in Hungary; her education in Vienna; the family's permanent move to Hungary after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938; her career as a poultry breeder; her conversion to Catholicism; the family's deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; her separation from them during the selection process; her transport to Hessisch-Lichtenau, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, after six weeks at Auschwitz; her work in a factory that produced ammunition; her exposure to phosphorous; the conditions at the camp; her relationships with French labor camp inmates; the hierarchies between prisoners and Kapos; her attempts to celebrate Christmas; the death march she endured; her fear of being liberated by Russians; escaping from the march on Easter 1945; reaching a farmer's home with her friends and were fed potatoes, milk, and chives, which was a meal they continued to eat every Easter to celebrate this kindness; their liberation by Jewish American soldiers; being befriended and sheltered by an American major; working as interpreter and secretary for another American major in a displaced persons camp, where she encountered Henry Kissinger.
    Interviewee
    Elizabeth Zierer
    Date
    interview:  1986 June 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (90 min.).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Elizabeth Zierer on June 2, 1986. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2007.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:49:30
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