Oral history interview with Gerda Kroitzer
Extent and Medium
10 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Gerda Kroitzer in Israel on January 14, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview on June 10, 1999, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Kroitzer, Gerda, 1932-
- Gerda Kroitzer
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Zionists.
- Yom Kippur.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Tuberculosis.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Hannover.
- Jewish ghettos--Germany--Hannover.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Study and teaching.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Concentration camp inmates' writings.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Black market--Germany--Hannover.
- Bat mitzvah.
- Antisemitism--Germany--Hannover.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Hannover (Germany)
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
Genre
- Oral History