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Oral history interview with Gerda Kroitzer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.330 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0330

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    Oral history interview with Gerda Kroitzer

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gerda Steinfeld (née Kroitzer), born on August 15, 1932 in Hanover, Germany, describes her family; the thriving Jewish community; her father’s service in WWI; her father being forced to retire in 1935; anti-Jewish laws; Jews being forced to live in crowded houses; suffering as a child in those years and not being able to attend school; witnessing one of Hitler’s speeches in a public square; Kristallnacht and the synagogue burning; moving to a nursing home with her family for six months; the growing suicide rates among German Jews; her family discussing emigration; evacuation from Hanover on July 24, 1942; being sent to Terezin; the crowding, lice, and illnesses; becoming ill, possible with TB; her social life in the camp; the deportations to Birkenau; celebrating her Bat-mitzvah; her notebook that contained notes from her lessons in the camps; the theatrical and musical performances in her Block; liberation; returning to Hanover and the destruction there; antisemitism in Hanover in the 1950s; the black market in Hanover; immigrating to Israel; and how her survivor’s guilt moved her to research the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Gerda Kroitzer
    Date
    interview:  1998 January 14
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    10 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kroitzer, Gerda, 1932-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Gerda Kroitzer in Israel on January 14, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:16:14
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