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Oral history interview with Gitta Sereny

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.43 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0483

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    Oral history interview with Gitta Sereny

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gitta Sereny discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria; her mother's career as an actress and translator; her schooling in England and France in the 1930s and 1940s; her work with refugee children in Paris, France with the Auxiliaire Sociale during the first years of World War II; helping to start a children's center for orphaned and abandoned children with the Auxiliaire Sociale in Villandry, France after the German occupation; her work with the French resistance movement; her observations of the German occupation of Austria; returning to Europe after spending time in the United States to work with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration helping children in displaced persons camps; the German program for taking Aryan-looking children from their parents in Eastern Europe and giving them to childless German couples and her work in restoring these children to their biological parents; working for the Daily Telegraph magazine covering the German trials; and her interaction with various German war criminals, including Franz Stangl and Albert Speer.
    Interviewee
    Gitta Sereny
    Interviewer
    Vera Frankl
    Date
    interview:  2004 February 29

    Physical Details

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

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    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Gitta Sereny on February 29, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in February 2004.
    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 08:03:08
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