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Oral history interview with Gisela Hirschberger

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.514 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0514

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    Oral history interview with Gisela Hirschberger
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    Interview Summary
    Gisela Hirschberger discusses her childhood in Dresden, Germany; her memories of the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938, including her father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp; her flight to Essex, England in May 1939, where she taught and cared for a child in the family who provided her with refuge; having to find a new home; journeying to Cornwall where she was forced to attend a tribunal in which she was determined to be an enemy alien; being sent to a prison camp in the Isle of Man; her experiences in the prison camp; receiving packages from her parents, which ceased after their deportation to Auschwitz; the general good treatment she received; her release in 1942; her war-time work in a munitions factory; her engagement and marriage with a fellow survivor and artist; and their immigration to the United States in 1947; receiving family belongings that survived the Dresden bombings and were found by a friend of her parents 30 years after the war.
    Interviewee
    Gisela Hirschberger
    Date
    interview:  2002 October 09
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (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.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Hirschberger, Gisela.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gisela Hirschberger on October 9, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
    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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    2022-07-28 20:13:17
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