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Oral history interview with Elaine Gross

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.285 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0285

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    Oral history interview with Elaine Gross

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    Interview Summary
    Elaine Gross (née Heller), born on June 6, 1919 in Encsencs, Hungary, discusses her early religious and family life; training as a dressmaker; working with tailors at labor camps near Krakow, Poland; doing forced labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from 1944 to 1945; aid from non-Jews; dealings with Kapo to obtain food; religious observance of Yom Kippur; 200 prisoners refusing food and work at Auschwitz-Birkenau; living in a displaced persons camp in Vienna, Vienna 1956 to 1958; and immigrating to the United States in 1958.
    Interviewee
    Elaine Gross
    Interviewer
    Gerry Schneeberg
    Date
    interview:  1993 November 29
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Extent
    3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:37:39
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