Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein, 1992 March 13

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Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein, 1992 March 13

Oral history interview with Gerda Weissmann Klein, 1992 March 13

1992 March 13

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507376

Gerda Weissmann Klein discusses her memories of the German invasion of Poland; her time in the Bielsko ghetto; her deportation to a transit camp in Sosnowiec, Poland; her time working in slave labor as a weaver and loom operator; her friendship with Susie Kuhn and the bet they made together while on board a transport train on their way to Bolkenhain concentration camp; her memories of Frau Kligler, a guard in Bolkenhain; how she and a friend wrote and performed a play in their barrack at Bolkenhain; her memories of crafting a menorah from potatoes and celebration of the Jewish holidays in the camp; how she used her imagination as a defense against her captors; her move from Bolkenhain to Maerzdorf concentration camp where she worked harvesting flax from a swamp for linen production; how she celebrated her 18 birthday; her experiences on a death march through Germany; the death of her friend Susie Kuhn, shortly before liberation; and her memories of her liberation by American troops at a camp near Volary, Czechoslovakia.

4 film reels : color ; 16 mm. 5 sound tape reels : analog, mono ; 7 in.. 2 videocassette (D2) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

eng, Latn

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum