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Oral history interview with Marianne Gerhart

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.249 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0249

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    Oral history interview with Marianne Gerhart

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marianne Gerhart, born on July 19, 1923 in Munich, Germany, discusses her childhood in Munich as the daughter of a non-observant Jewish actress mother and a non-Jewish father; her lack of Jewish education or identification; her baptism and her Catholic school education; the difficulties posed by her mother's Jewish background, which resulted in her father losing his job; her parents' adaption to their changed circumstances under Nazism; her experiences during the period of 1933-1945; obtaining false papers for herself through a Lutheran school; her father's interest in socialism and Rudolph Steiner; her father stablishing a farm; the numerous threats to her mother's safety; her parents' divorce after the war; and her immigration to the United States in 1946 as a displaced person with her mother.
    Interviewee
    Marianne Gerhart
    Interviewer
    Elizabeth Ryan
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1997 July 16
    interview:  1997 August 06
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gerhart, Marianne.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Marianne Gerhart on July 16, 1997 and August 6, 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    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 08:44:27
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