Oral history interview with Hennie Bergh
Hennie Bergh (née Mattisson), born in 1906 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her childhood; enjoying a middle-class life; her Jewish public school education; the large Jewish population in Berlin; her husband, Walter Felix Zuberbergh (aka Bergh); how things changed beginning in 1932; the arrest of her husband and his imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp; getting a passport and buying tickets for her family to Shanghai, China; experiencing many challenges in Shanghai, where they lived for 10 years; immigrating to the United States; and settling in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Interviewee
- Hennie Mattisson Bergh
- Interviewer
- Esther Hockenberg
- Date
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interview:
1981 April 02
- Language
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English
- Extent
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1 sound cassette.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society
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