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Oral history interview with Charlotte Grosman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.913 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0913

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    Oral history interview with Charlotte Grosman
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    Interview Summary
    Charlotte Grosman discusses her childhood in Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia (now Mukacheve, Ukraine); the large Jewish community; her Jewish education in Hebrew-speaking schools; the rich cultural life she enjoyed; the occupation of the community by Hungary in 1938; the prominence of the Arrow Cross party; her father being conscripted into forced labor in 1940 and his death in 1941; the establishment of a ghetto in 1944; the difficult conditions; her deportation with her mother to Auschwitz; her experiences upon arrival; her mother being sent to gas chambers; her work in a munitions factory and the terrible conditions she endured; her post-liberation experiences; wandering with her sister toward their home, which they found deserted and destroyed; arriving in Cheb, Czech Republic, where they found a community of survivors; her marriage and the birth of her son; the arrival of Soviet occupiers in 1949; the family's immigration to Israel, where her daughter was born in 1956; their life in Israel until 1960, when they immigrated to the United States in search of medical treatment for her husband; and her career as a professor of Hebrew for 25 years at the University of California in Berkeley.
    Interviewee
    Charlotte Grosman
    Interviewer
    Peter Ryan
    Date
    interview:  2004 March 10
    interview:  2004 April 14
    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
    Grosman, Charlotte.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Charlotte Grosman on March 10, 2004 and April 14, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
    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 20:13:25
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