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Oral history interview with Erna Gruschka

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.766 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0766

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    Oral history interview with Erna Gruschka

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Erna Gruschka discusses her childhood in Elbing, East Prussia, Germany (now Elbląg, Poland); her memories of Hitler Youth marching in the streets; the imprisonment of her father and uncles after Kristallnacht in November 1938; her opportunity to go on a Kindertransport and her mother's refusal to break up the family; the release of her father from prison and her family's flight to Shanghai, China; the conditions in the Hong Kew ghetto; the education she received; the cultural life that flourished in the ghetto; her brother’s bar mitzvah while in Shanghai; her family's decision to immigrate to Israel in 1949; the long ship journey around the Cape; her life in Israel; emigrating from Israel with her family to Canada in 1952; immigrating to the United States in 1954.
    Interviewee
    Erna Gruschka
    Interviewer
    Erna Gruschka
    Anne G. Saldinger
    Date
    interview:  2003 November 25
    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
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gruschka, Erna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Erna Gruschka on November 25, 2003. 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 08:46:45
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