Oral history interview with Gertrude Koppel
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gertrude Koppel on November 1, 1989. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in April 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Gertrude Koppel
- Koppel, Gertrude.
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Birnbaumel (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Ecuador--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia.
- Quito (Ecuador)
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Forced abortion.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Frostbite.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1945-1992.
Genre
- Oral History