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Oral history interview with Guenter Gruschka

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.767 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0767

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    Oral history interview with Guenter Gruschka

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Guenter Gruschka discusses his childhood in Ohlau, Germany (now Oława, Poland); his memories of Kristallnacht, when his family's store was destroyed; the family's move to Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in search of safety; his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp; his father's release; his mother's success in obtaining transport to Shanghai, China and the family's flight there in 1939; the family's experiences arriving in Shanghai; his memories of a relatively happy childhood in Shanghai; his education in a Jewish school; the birth of his brother in 1941; the hardships and poverty the family endured; the family's move to La Paz, Bolivia in 1947; his bar mitzvah in San Francisco, CA, where the family stopped en route; the family's life and experiences in La Paz; their immigration to the United States in 1953; his high school education; being drafted into the US military in 1957; and marrying and becoming a citizen in 1960.
    Interviewee
    Guenter Gruschka
    Interviewer
    Hilde Gattmann
    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, Guenter.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Guenter 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 08:46:46
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