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Oral history interview with Irene Miller

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.607 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0607

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    Oral history interview with Irene Miller

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Miller's childhood in Bad Elster, Germany and Prague, Czechoslovakia; her work in the Czech resistance as a teenager; and her arrest by the Gestapo in October 1943. She describes her imprisonment in Terezin (Theresienstadt) and her deportation to Ravensbrück as a mischlinge political prisoner in September 1944. She describes her experiences there, a death march in April 1944, and liberation by the Russian army. She describes her health problems after the war; her time in a hospital in Posen, Germany; her return to Prague; and the fates of other family members. Ms. Miller describes emigrating to the United States in 1953 and her life in San Francisco since then.
    Interviewee
    Ms. Irene Miller
    Date
    interview:  2002 December 11
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Irene Miller on December 11, 2002. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in September 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 08:45:59
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