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Oral history interview with Herta Long

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.859 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0859

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    Oral history interview with Herta Long
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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Long's childhood in Schokken, Germany (now Skoki, Poland), her move to Berlin, Germany and her marriage to Ernest Goldstein in 1937. Ms. Long decribes her difficulties in obtaining a visa to the United States, the birth of her daughter, the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and her husband being recruited for forced labor. She discusses the family being forced to move into a "Jewish" house, her own experiences with forced labor at the Graf Zeppelin works, her father's and sister's deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, and her decision to remain hidden in Berlin. Ms. Long describes her experiences in hiding, her husband's arrest and deportation in 1943, her liberation by Russian troops, being identified as a non-Jew and deported to a quarantined village, and a long difficult journey through Lithuania, Kaliningrad and finally to a transit camp in East Germany. Ms. Long describes her arrival in Berlin, her job with the International Refugee Organization and her immigration to the United States in November 1950.
    Interviewee
    Herta Long
    Date
    interview:  1989 August 01
    interview:  1989 October 17
    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
    Long, Herta.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Herta Long on August 1, 1989 and October 17, 1989. 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.
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    2022-07-28 20:13:24
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