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Oral history interview with Marita J. Berg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.301 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0301

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    Oral history interview with Marita J. Berg

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    Interview Summary
    Marita Berg, born in 1941 in Leipzig, Germany, describes her mother, who was Jewish, and her father, who was a German gentile and a Communist in the resistance; the deportation of her maternal grandmother and aunt to Auschwitz, where they were murdered; surviving the war with her mother because a German soldier who was involved in the deportation of her grandmother and aunt agreed not to deport them if her mother would have sexual relations with him; the separation of her parents and not living with her mother for a time; living in East Germany after the war with her father; being taken in at one point by a family friend and living in an orphanage for a short time; moving to West Germany to live with her mother; living in West Germany until the mid-1980s, after which she married a Jewish American; her thoughts on the ambivalence or denial by Jews of their Jewish identity; self-identifying as a Jew; and the antisemitism in post-war Germany.
    Interviewee
    Marita J. Berg
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 01
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Berg, Marita J.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Marita J. Berg on July 1, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 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 08:44:39
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