Oral history interview with Sia Hertsberg
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Lillian Klein
Biographical History
Lillian Klein, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on September 5, 1996, in Washington, D.C.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
- Hertsberg, Sia, 1927-
- Lillian Klein
- Ms. Sia Hertsberg
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- Women--Crimes against--Latvia.
- Women dressmakers.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Typhus fever.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Sisters.
- Sex crimes.
- Rumbula Massacre, Rumbula, Latvia, 1941.
- Parents--Death.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Latvia.
- Jews--Latvia--Riga.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Latvia.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga.
- Jewish families--Latvia--Riga.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hiding places--Latvia.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Latvia.
- Escapes.
- Death.
- Death marches.
- Death march survivors.
- Crematoriums.
- Corpse removals.
- Child concentration camp inmates--Care.
- Antisemitism--Latvia--Riga.
- Altruism.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Sztutowo (Poland)
- Riga (Latvia)
- Latvia--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Kolomna (Russia)
- Chicago (Ill.)
Genre
- Oral History
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