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Oral history interview with Gerda Levy

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.520 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0520

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    Oral history interview with Gerda Levy

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gerda Levy discusses her childhood in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland); her memories of increased antisemitism after the Nazis rose to power; being asked to leave the Catholic school she attended in 1935; witnessing the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938, including the murder of her teacher; the burning of the local synagogue; the destruction of her family's apartment; her father going into hiding; the family's flight after numerous failed attempts to obtain visas from Germany to La Paz, Bolivia in 1940; being moved to a village because there were too many Jewish refugees in La Paz; the difficulties the family faced in adjusting to life in Bolivia; and her immigration to the United States in 1950.
    Interviewee
    Gerda Levy
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  2002 May 15
    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
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Levy, Gerda.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gerda Levy on May 15, 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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    2023-11-16 08:45:32
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