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Oral history interview with Helga Niedrich

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.152.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0761

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    Oral history interview with Helga Niedrich

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Helga Niedrich (née Mader), born on April 20, 1929 in Witkowitz, Czechoslovakia, discusses her family and early childhood spent with her grandparents in Leipnik, Czechoslovakia (Lipník nad Bečvou, Czech Republic); attending German school; moving with her mother and stepfather to Stadt Liebau, a village in the Sudetenland; her mother’s work for the National Socialist Women’s League and her stepfather’s membership in the SA; her time in the League of German Girls; her memory of Hitler and the Nazis marching into the village; the food rations and her work on a farm once the war began; her stepfather’s conscription into the army and his eventual capture by the Soviets; the camp for British prisoners of war outside of the village; having no knowledge of the extermination of Jews during the war; fleeing the Soviet soldiers at the war’s end; her mother’s sexual assault; eventually arriving in Prague and staying in a stadium; her and her mother’s transport to Theresienstadt on May 24, 1945; the 15 months she spent there as a forced laborer; her and her mother’s transport to the Soviet zone of Germany and their work on a farm there; their escape to the British zone; visiting the Czech Republic later in life; her move to be with a friend in Braunschweig, Germany; her stepfather’s fate; meeting and later marrying her husband; her family’s immigration to the United States; her visits to Israel; learning more about the camps later in life; the dangers of Holocaust denial; and the guilt and shame she sometimes feels about her German heritage.
    Interviewee
    Helga Niedrich
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2014 July 16

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Niedrich, Helga, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Helga Niedrich on July 16, 2014 in Orlando, FL.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:42
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