Overview
- Interview Summary
- Regina Prima Briemer (née Harf), born on January 8, 1920 in Wickrath, Mönchengladbach, Germany, describes her early years growing up in Wickrath with her brother Siegfried; her father building a big house where they moved in December 1932; the rise of Hitler to power in Germany; her father who was traditional, and her mother who was more orthodox; her brother Siegfried immigrating to Palestine in 1936; working in Cologne, Germany as a housemaid for Dr. Ochs for three years; the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938 when their home was plundered; her father losing his job; being in Gehringshof Hashgacha (Bachad) from September 1939 until September 1941; being deported with her parents in December 1941 to Riga, Latvia; hearing about the massacres of Jews for the first time; her work shovelling the deep snow; being transferred to Kommando Rosenberg, where she sorted Jewish books that were brought in from Riga’s Jewish homes; the murder of her parents in the Riga ghetto in March 1942 during a raid; having an operation on her appendix in the Riga ghetto; being sent to Kaiserwald concentration camp; contracting typhus; being transported to ABA (Arbeitskleidung Anstalt); her work rolling barrels and disassembling batteries; being sent to Spilva (Spilwe), building the Spilva airport; being sent to Mühlgraben, where she worked with laundry; hurting her knee and reporting to the ghetto’s hospital, and how this saved her life because she avoided a raid that happened that day at the camp in 1944; the August 1944 deportation of prisoners to Stutthof, during which she hid; being sent with 200 prisoners to Libau (Liepaja) by boat; her work loading and unloading ships in Libau; being sent to Germany by boat in February 1945; being sent to a women’s prison in Hamburg, Germany (possibly Fuhlsbüttel); being forced to march from Hamburg to Kiel, which took four days; her work clearing the bombed town of Kiel; being given civil clothes, which were full of lice, and transported to Flensburg; joining a full train coming from Ravensbrück; going to Malmo, Sweden, where they were welcomed by the Red Cross on May 2, 1945; living in a school that was transformed into a temporary home for the survivors; and immigrating to Palestine in February 1947.
- Interviewee
- Regina Prima Briemer
- Date
-
interview:
1981 July 26
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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1 sound cassette : analog.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Appendix (Anatomy)--Surgery. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Household employees--Germany. Jewish families--Germany. Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Germany--Mönchengladbach. Jews--Persecutions. Jews--Surgery--Latvia--Riga. Jews, German--Latvia--Riga. Kristallnacht, 1938. Refugees--Sweden--Malmö. Typhus fever. Women concentration camp inmates. Women--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Jews. World War, 1939-1945--Latvia--Riga. World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Latvia--Riga.
- Geographic Name
- Flensburg (Germany) Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945. Hamburg (Germany) Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Liepaja (Latvia) Malmö (Sweden) Mönchengladbach (Germany) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Riga (Latvia)
- Personal Name
- Briemer, Regina Prima.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Andrea Winograd, on behalf of the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education, donated oral history interviews to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2016.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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