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Oral history interview with Anna Greenberger

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.232.0035

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    Oral history interview with Anna Greenberger

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Anna Greenberger, born in Koroml’a, Czechoslovakia in 1924, discusses her childhood; moving with her family to Sobrance, Czechoslovakia in 1932; her three sisters; the German invasion and hiding from the Germans; passing as Gentiles; avoiding the affection of a German officer; her father being taken to a labor camp in Russia; her fiancé’s participation in the army and visiting him in a labor camp in Kosice (Slovakia); the German occupation of Hungary in 1944; being sent with her mother and sisters to the Uzhgorod ghetto; being deported after two months to Auschwitz, where they stayed until August; the conditions in Auschwitz; being sent with her family to Lübberstedt forced labor camp, where they manufactured ammunition; stealing in the camp; the evacuation of the camp via trains; escaping the train while it was bombed by the Allies; being forced by the Germans to march; being liberated by the British; spending time in a typhoid hospital in Neustadt before returning to Sobrance with her family; reuniting with her fiancé and getting married him; starting a family; moving to Israel in 1949; moving with her family to Rome before moving to Argentina then Paraguay; her husband’s work for Germans in Paraguay; experiencing antisemitism; going to the United States in 1955; and her thoughts on Germans.
    Interviewee
    Anna Greenberger
    Interviewer
    Kay Roth
    Date
    interview:  1982 August 24
    Geography
    creation: Southfield (Mich.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes : analog.

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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Greenberger, Anna, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Provenance
    The University of Michigan, Dearborn conducted the interview with Anna Greenberger. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes in November 1992
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:23:00
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