Oral history interview with Adda Gerstel
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Adda Gerstel on May 26, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in August 1999.
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
- Adda Gerstel
- Gerstel, Adda.
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai.
- Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
- Wrocław (Poland)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--China--Shanghai.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Shanghai (China)
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jewish families--China--Shanghai.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--China--Shanghai.
- Jews, German--China--Shanghai.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
Genre
- Oral History
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.