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Oral history interview with Gisela Zamora

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2003.178 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0476

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    Oral history interview with Gisela Zamora

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gisela Zamora, born in 1928 in Battenberg, Germany, discusses her family and childhood; the intense antisemitism in Battenberg after Hitler's rise to power; her family's move to Friedberg, Hesse, Germany; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht and imprisonment in Buchenwald for a month; the closing of Jewish schools in Aichach-Friedberg in 1939 and her continued schooling in Frankfurt, Germany; her family's deportation in 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia; her experiences in the “kinderheim” in Theresienstadt; her and her family's deportation to Auschwitz; her daily life in Auschwitz and the support from friends that she had there; doing forced labor at a camp near Gross-Rosen; her liberation by the Soviets; her recuperation from tuberculosis in a German hospital; her time in the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany; her immigration to the United States in 1947; her feelings toward the Germans; and her current religious beliefs and thoughts on the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Gisela E. Zamora
    Interviewer
    Amy Rubin
    Date
    interview:  2003 June 01

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zamora, Gisela.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Gisela Zamora on June 1, 2003. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:05
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