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Oral history interview with Herta Griffel Baitch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2016.108.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0877

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    Oral history interview with Herta Griffel Baitch

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    Interview Summary
    Herta Griffel, born March 10, 1933 in Vienna, Austria, describes her parents Berta Nagel Griffel and Wolf Griffel; being an only child; her father’s small grocery; her father being sent to a work camp on Kristallnacht; her father’s return home and death soon after; losing their grocery on Kristallnacht; the Nazis taking their valuables from their home; being one of nine children chosen for a Kindertransport to the US in November 1940; being sent by train to an American ship headed to New York; being escorted by a social worker (Rose Beser) to her first foster family (the Bears) in Baltimore, MD; how the first family was very loving to her but when the mother gave birth to a fourth child, the charity transferred Herta to another family, which consisted of one adopted daughter, Beverly (who was almost three years older than Herta); living with the second foster family from 1941 until she got married in 1952; having a hard time leaving Baltimore; being contacted in 1964 by her cousin in London and learning more about her family; meeting two women in 2008 who were in the same Kindertransport with her; how her feelings about her survival have changed over time; and feeling lucky now that she has three children and seven grandchildren.
    Interviewee
    Herta Baitch
    Interviewer
    Navazelskis, Ina
    Date
    interview:  2016 May 10
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

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    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Herta Griffel Baitch on May 10, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
    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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    2024-02-09 11:23:23
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