Overview
- Interview Summary
- Herta Frieberg, born in Leipsig, Germany, discusses her childhood in Berlin; her expulsion from her university studies because she was Jewish; being barred from competing as a swimmer in the 1936 Olympics; her deportation to a slave labor camp in 1940; her transfer to Auschwitz in cattle cars along with her mother and sister in 1943; her separation from her mother and sister; marching under the “Arbeit Macht Frei” finding out that her mother had been gassed; her reunion in Auschwitz with her sister who came to her block from Birkenau; her transfer from slave labor to a position as a secretary for German soldiers; camp propaganda during a visit by international members of the Red Cross; being sent on a week-long death march in January 1945; her transfer along with her sister to Mauthausen, then to Bergen-Belsen, and then to Ravensbrück; how she and her sister escaped from Ravensbrück and were liberated by Russian soldiers; traveling to the border of Holland with Russian soldiers and being allowed to cross; her immigrationg to the United States in 1949; and her postwar life in the U.S.
- Interviewee
- Herta Frieberg
- Date
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interview:
1976
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cindy Berglund
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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1 DVD : MPEG-2.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews. World War, 1939-1945. Forced labor. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Frieberg, Herta.
- Corporate Name
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Cindy Berglund donated a copy of her mother Herta Frieberg's oral testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2012. The testimony is a recording of Ms. Frieberg's presentation to a class of high school students in 1976.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-25 11:45:18
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