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Oral history interview with Eva Abramowitsch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.792 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0792

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    Oral history interview with Eva Abramowitsch
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    Interview Summary
    Eva Koretz Abramowitsch, born on February 15, 1916 in Hamburg, Germany, describes being the youngest of three children; her older brother Hans Gerhardt and her sister Leana; her father’s store; attending a Jewish school where she studied Hebrew and Jewish studies; participating in left-wing youth organizations, which she described as being social rather than political; losing the family store in 1938; the family being forced to sell their house; her work as a young nurse in training in a Jewish hospital in Berlin; witnessing the events of Kristallnacht; escaping to England in 1939 with her mother and sister and reuniting with her brother there; surviving on the money her father had transferred to Switzerland; working as an au pair; meeting her future husband, who was a musician in England; the break-up of her family, as her mother and sister immigrated to Palestine; never seeing her mother again; immigrating with her husband to the United States where they settled in California; living in a boarding house with other refugees; and her visit to Germany in the 1960s.
    Interviewee
    Eva Abramowitsch
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bradley
    Date
    interview:  1996 May 08
    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..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Abramowitsch, Eva, 1916-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Eva Abramowitsch on May 8, 1996. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 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.
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 20:13:22
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