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Oral history interview with Trudy Friedler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.21 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0021

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    Oral history interview with Trudy Friedler

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Trudy Friedler describes being born to a Jewish mother and a Gentile father in Austria; her parents divorcing when she was three or four years old; being very poor; her mother working as an actress-dancer to support the family; being sent to a Jewish orphanage when her mother toured with a performance group; conditions when Hitler marched into Austria in 1938; being hassled in school; staying in the orphanage as her mother went to live in the second district; the arrest and deportation of her uncle; the liquidation of the orphanage in 1940 and going to live with her mother; having to wear identity cards that were marked with a “J”; joining a Zionist youth organization and her mother not allowing her to go to Palestine; being ordered to work in the fields cutting asparagus when she was in eighth grade; being sent in 1941 with her family to Vienna, Austria, where they had to re-register as Jewish citizens; being issued a yellow star; working in a detergent factory; their ration cards for food; people going missing; working in lumber yards for two months; hiding out in July 1942 and the help they received; the Allied bombing of Vienna between 1943 and 1944; her aunt being caught in 1945 and sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhoid; her grandfather being deported to Theresienstadt; going to Germany in 1945; and being liberated by the Americans.
    Interviewee
    Mrs. Trude Friedler
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1990 July

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Friedler, Trudy.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Trudy Friedler 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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