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Oral history interview with Dieter W. Bergman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.796 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0796

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    Oral history interview with Dieter W. Bergman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dieter W. Bergman, born in 1920 in Liepzig, Germany, discusses his Protestant father and Jewish mother, who had converted to Protestantism; the divorce of his parents when he was young; living with his father; brought up Protestant; attending high school in Liepzig; being drafted into the military in 1940; attending medical school; serving until he was forced out in 1942; being sent in 1943 to Łódź, Poland to work in a chemical and rubber plant; being transferred to Krakow, Poland and from there to labor camps in Boulogne, France to build fortifications against the eventual invasion of Allied troops (Operation Todt); being captured and imprisoned in several prisoners-of-war camps in England; continuing his medical studies in England; returning to Germany to finish his medical school education; obtaining a residency in Chicago,IL; immigrating to the United States; joining the United States Navy, serving as an obstetrician in Bremerton, WA; and moving to Northern California, where he practiced medicine for 35 years and raised two children.
    Note: Dieter W. Bergman was the author of an autobiography - “Between Two Benches ” - which recounts his experiences as a mischlinge (half-Jew) during his years living in Nazi Germany. He died in 1997.
    Interviewee
    Dieter Bergman
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  1996 January 04
    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..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bergman, Dieter, 1920-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Dieter W. Bergman on January 4, 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:
    2023-11-16 08:46:54
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