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Oral history interview with Gertie Hotzner

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.630 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0630

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    Oral history interview with Gertie Hotzner

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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mrs. Hotzner's family and childhood in Vienna, Austria. Mrs. Hotzner remembers the increasing antisemitism that occurred in Austria after it was incorporated by Nazi Germany in March 1938, and relates that she, her brother Walter, and her mother were able to obtain visas because her father's sister was living in San Francisco. Mrs. Hotzner describes their journey and their separation from their father, who was in a different quota group. She describes adjusting to life in the United States, her mother's efforts to obtain funds to send for Mrs. Hotzner's father and other family members, and learning about her father's deportation from Vienna to Nisko, Poland. Mrs. Hotzner describes her father's experiences after the deportation, when he was sent to the Russian zone, his forced labor there, and his eventual death during the Holocaust. She discusses her life after the war, her marriage and the birth of her children, and reflects on issues relating to prejudice and guilt.

    The collection also includes photocopies of letters and documents relating to Mrs. Gotzner's father.
    Interviewee
    Gertie Hotzner
    Date
    interview:  1990 July 25
    interview:  1990 September 12
    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 Gertie Hotzner on July 25, 1990 and September 12, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 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 08:46:07
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