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Oral history interview with Gary Sternberg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2019.443.6 | RG Number: RG-90.105.0006

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    Oral history interview with Gary Sternberg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gerd (aka Gary) Sternberg, born on August 25, 1931 in Cuxhaven, Germany, discusses his parents Augusta (a devout Christian of Polish ancestry who had fled Russian persecution) and Herman (a German-born Jew salesman and inventor); his older sister Ruth; conditions for Jews in Germany in the late 1930s; the arrest and deportation of his father to a concentration camp; the release of his father; his father's and later his whole family's migration to Shanghai, China; going by train through Russia to China; being transferred to a Japanese ship and crossing the Yellow Sea; arriving in Shanghai district called Hongkew; living in the Jewish ghetto in Hongkew from May 1939 to July 1948; immigrating to the United States; living in Cleveland, OH and Los Angeles, CA; getting married in 1957; living in Las Vegas, NV, where he worked for Sears selling washing machines, and had a repair business and an importing business with his wife; working at Caesars Palace; his Jewish identity; converting to Judaism; and being an active member of the Jewish community.
    Interviewee
    Gary Sternberg
    Interviewer
    Ms. Barbara Tabach
    Date
    interview:  2015 February 12
    interview:  2015 February 15
    interview:  2015 April 07
    interview:  2015 October
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    6 digital files : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sternberg, Gary.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Oral History Research Center at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2019.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 10:05:00
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