Oral history interview with Morton Gerson
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Gail Schwartz
Biographical History
The interview with Morton Gerson was conducted on August 29, 1989 as part of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington's oral history project to document Washington, DC area survivor's experiences of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview on May 26, 1993.
Archival History
Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Gerson, Morton, 1908-
- Morton Gerson
- Gail Schwartz
Corporate Bodies
- Haganah (Organization)
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Russia (Federation)--Sverdlovskaia oblast'.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Ural Mountains Region (Russia)
- Jewish refugees--Europe, Eastern.
- New York (N.Y.)
- Russia (Federation)--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
- Jews--Poland--Zamosc.
- Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Ukraine--Ethnic relations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps.
- L'viv (Ukraine)
- Zamosc (Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
- Businesspeople.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Russia.
- Railroad travel--Russia.
- Kyïv (Ukraine)
- Jews, Polish--Ukraine.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish refugees--Uzbekistan.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Waldram (Germany)
- Sverdlovskaia oblast' (Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jews--Ukraine--Kyïv.
- Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
- Antisemitism--Ukraine.
Genre
- Oral History
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