Overview
- Interviewee
- Esther W. Grun
- Date
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interview:
2005 December 15-2006 May 08
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dorothee von Huene-Greenberg
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 CD-ROM : WMA.
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Administrative Notes
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- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dorothee von Huene-Greenberg donated a copy of the oral history interview with Esther Weisz Grun to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum December 21, 2012. The interview was recorded during several sessions between December 15, 2005 and May 8, 2006.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:29:49
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Also in Esther Weisz Grun oral history collection
Includes a CD-ROM of audio interviews with Esther Weisz Grun conducted from December 15, 2005 until May 8, 2006 and a DVD of a video testimony recorded at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY ca. 2009.
Date: 2005 December 15-2009
Presentation by Esther Weisz Grun
Oral History
Esther Grun discusses being raised in Hungary; her early schooling; wearing the gold star once the Germans took over; her parents and the philosophies that they taught her; being sent to Auschwitz; being sent to Ravensbrück; how she lost her whole family to the gas chambers at Auschwitz; the conditions in the camps; the different types of forced labor that she did; the way the prisoners were treated by the guards; the children at Ravensbrück; being chosen for a work detail in a munitions factory near Leipzig, Germany; the bombing of the munitions factory; being sent on a death march; how she escaped by hiding in a barn and being taken in by a woman on a nearby farm; being taken to the town square and having it announced that she and the other two girls with her were available for work; working on a nearby farm; hearing that Hitler was dead and that they were free; leaving the farm to walk home and being picked up by a Red Cross truck; being in a hospital then being sent to a sanatorium in Czechoslovakia after the war because she had TB; making it home and finding only her aunt had survived; the reasons she tells her story; her Jewish faith and praying in the camps; and her thoughts on the emergence of the Nazi movement and human cruelty.
