Overview
- Interview Summary
- Gerald "Jerry" B. Rosenstein, born in 1927 in Bensheim, Germany, describes his life before the war; his family's decision to move to Amsterdam, the Netherlands after Hitler came to power; his deportation in the spring of 1943 to Westerbork; his parents being deported separately to Bergen-Belsen; being deported after a few months to Theresienstadt, where he reunited with his parents; being sent with his father to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the late summer of 1944, and from there to Gleiwitz; being evacuated on a death march and being liberated by the Russians; staying briefly in Odessa, Ukraine; taking a ship with his father to France; reuniting with his mother in Amsterdam in the summer of 1945; and immigrating in 1949 with his family to the United States.
- Interviewee
- Gerald Rosenstein
- Date
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interview:
2006
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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4 DVD.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Death marches. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives. Jewish refugees--Ukraine--Odessa. Jews--Germany--Bensheim. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Amsterdam (Netherlands) Bensheim (Germany) Gliwice (Poland) Odesa (Ukraine) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Rosenstein, Gerald B.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Gerald Rosenstein, with the assistance of Robert Ehrenreich, donated this oral history to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in November 2006. The interview was conducted February 27, 2006
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 20:11:05
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