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Oral history interview with Mary Berges

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.278 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0278

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    Oral history interview with Mary Berges

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Mary Berges (née Friedman), born in 1935 in Antwerp, Belgium, describes her early life in Antwerp; her father Michael (born in Poland), who was a baker; her mother Elizabeth (born in Graz); her brother, Alfred (born in Germany in 1932); her father's arrest; her experiences being hidden in Catholic orphanages, separately from her brother; being mistreated in the orphanages and her feelings about those experiences; being taken to an Orthodox Jewish orphanage by a family member after the war (her Aunt Rivka's sister in law); learning that her parents had perished at Auschwitz; immigrating to the United States in 1947; the difficulties of adjusting to life in the US; her experiences in a foster home; her education and training as a nurse; her continued emotional struggles about her wartime experiences; and her reflections on her childhood.
    Interviewee
    Mary Berges
    Interviewer
    Ellen Szakal
    Date
    interview:  1995 July 21
    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
    3 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Berges, Mary, 1935-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Mary Berges on July 21, 1995. 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 08:44:33
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