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Oral history interview with Edit (Dita) Kraus

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.81 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0081

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    Oral history interview with Edit (Dita) Kraus

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    Interview Summary
    Edit (Dita) Kraus, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) on July 12, 1929, describes her assimilated Jewish family; going into the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto in 1942; participating in cultural activities in the ghetto, including operas, drawing and painting, and taking art lessons from Friedl Brandeis; the death of many of her older relatives in the ghetto; being sent to Auschwitz in December 1943, where she thought about committing suicide; being moved to a work camp in Hamburg, Germany, where she removed debris of collapsed buildings and worked in distilleries along the Elba River; being sent to another forced labor camp, Neugraben, then camp Tiefstock, and then to Bergen Belsen; her return to Prague; and her immigration to Israel.
    Interviewee
    Edit Kraus
    Date
    interview:  1992 March 24
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Genre/Form
    Songs and music
    Extent
    11 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Edit Kraus in Israel on March 24, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    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 08:14:51
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