Oral history interview with Gisela Hirschberger
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gisela Hirschberger on October 9, 2002. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in January 2003.
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
Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
People
- Hirschberger, Gisela.
- Gisela Hirschberger
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- London (England)
- Jewish refugees--England.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Cornwall (England)
- Essex (England)
- Dresden(Germany)
- Dresden (Germany)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945--England.
- Concentration camps--England.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Isle of Man.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History