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Oral history interview with Evelyn Arzt Bergl

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.381 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0498

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    Oral history interview with Evelyn Arzt Bergl

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    Interview Summary
    Evelyn Arzt Bergl, born in 1931 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her childhood; her father's arrest and imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps; her father's release due to her mother's efforts; her father's escape to Milan, Italy with a passport her mother obtained for him; her, her mother, and her brother joining her father in Milan; traveling to Ventimiglia, Italy and paying guides to cross over to France; traveling to Genoa, Italy and being cared for by the Jewish community there; being sent with her mother and brother to Veggiano, Italy by the Italian government; being reunited with her father in the Ferramonti concentration camp; life in the camp; the closing of the camp and moving to Bari, Italy, where her father and brother worked as agricultural laborers; her apprenticeship to dressmakers in Bari; being informed that Germans were coming to Bari and fleeing into the forest; the help that they received from citizens in Bari; liberation by French and Moroccan soldiers and partisans; life in the Cinecittà displaced persons camp and meeting her future husband there; and immigrating to the United States and living in New York.
    Interviewee
    Evelyn A. Bergl
    Interviewer
    Ringelheim, Dr. Joan
    Date
    interview:  2005 September 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    7 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Evelyn Arzt Bergl (nʹee Evelyne Arzt) on September 13, 2005. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in October 2005.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Carole and Maurice Berk.
    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 08:03:13
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