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Oral history interview with Regina Oppenheimer

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.484 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0484

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    Oral history interview with Regina Oppenheimer
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    Interview Summary
    Regina Oppenheimer (née Kirschblum), born April 30, 1920, discusses her childhood in Krasnovce, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia); escaping an abusive stepmother to live in an orphanage in 1933; leaving the orphanage after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in 1939; being deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin), Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; her experiences in the camps; being sent to a labor camp in Christianstadt, Silesia (present day Krzystkowice); being liberated by American troops in May 1945; and going to Sweden after the war.
    Interviewee
    Regina Oppenheimer
    Date
    interview:  1990 June 14
    interview:  1990 September 13
    interview:  1990 November 08
    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..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Regina Oppenheimer on June 14, 1990, September 13, 1990, and November 8, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2002.
    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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    2023-06-14 10:49:16
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