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Oral history interview with Rachel Gordon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.764 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0764

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    Oral history interview with Rachel Gordon

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Gordon's experiences in the Kovno ghetto from 1941 - 1945. Ms. Gordon describes the liquidation of the ghetto, and her transport to Stutthof where she worked for 6 weeks. She discusses the decision that her husband and she made that her son should remain with his father who was going to Dachau. She describes the death march from Stutthof in face of the advancing Russian army, her liberation by Russian troops, her forced transport to Russia, and her release and return to Germany. Ms. Gordon describes her time in Berlin, her illness and her happy reunion with her son, who had survived Dachau, although her husband had not. She recounts her experiences in a displaced persons camp, where she met her second husband, her son's immigration to Palestine, her eventual immigration to the United States, and her reunion with her son who came to the United States in 1952.
    Interviewee
    Rachel Gordon
    Date
    interview:  1990 November 07
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Kaunas (Lithuania)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Rachel Gordon on November 7, 1990. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in June 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:46:44
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