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Oral history interview with S. Edmund Berger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.3 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0003

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    Oral history interview with S. Edmund Berger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edmund Berger, born in Osijek, Yugoslavia (Croatia) in 1922, describes his parents divorcing when he was eight years old; being raised by his grandmother, who died when he was 14; latent antisemitism in that region of Croatia; having a bar mitzvah and a general Jewish education; being a good student in high school but expelled for playing pool; continuing school in Zagreb, Croatia; not returning home and thus being saved from the fate of his mother and friends who were lost after the Germans entered the town in 1941; seeing his father occasionally; the Germans occupying Zagreb in 1941; deciding to leave; Jews having to wear a yellow star; getting to Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) under a false name and meeting an uncle in Susak just south of Fiume; the area being under Italian occupation; the fighting nearby between the Germans and Tito's forces; the small Jewish community in Susak; his uncle getting documents to travel to a concentration camp in Ferramonte in the Province of Calabria; arriving in early 1942 and staying there for about one and a half years until the Allies arrived; life being relatively good in the camp; the demographics of the camp; working in the kitchen to earn some money for extra food on the black market; the concentration camps in Croatia, where conditions were worse; his mother dying in a Croatian camp; being liberated and traveling to Palermo, Italy with his future wife, Sultana; Sultana getting a job as a secretary for the Allied Command, while he studied chemistry; being supported by the Joint Distribution Committee; going to Rome, Italy, where he received a doctorate in chemistry in 1946; getting married in 1947; immigrating to the United States in 1949; the resistance movement in Yugoslavia; and visiting Croatia several times.
    Interviewee
    S E. Berger
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1989 March 27

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Berger, S. Edmund, 1922-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with S. Edmund Berger on March 27, 1989 with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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