Oral history interview with Gizel Berman, June 6, 1979.

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Oral history interview with Gizel Berman, June 6, 1979.

1979

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Berman describes her early life and experiences during World War II. A native of Czechoslovakia, she attended school in Brussels and studied in Budapest until she married Nick Berman in 1941. The couple lived in Hungarian-occupied Uzharod, Czechoslovakia. She describes their life during the early 1940s: her husband was a doctor for the German army and spent periods in slave labor camps. In early 1944 they moved to the mountain village Verhovina, but were taken to the Uzharod ghetto in May 1944. Berman narrates that she was transferred to Auschwitz for three days in the summer of 1944 and then moved to Stutthof for eight months until liberated by the Russians in March 1945. She tells that she was reunited with her husband after he was liberated from Terezin that May. Berman relates how she and Nick came to the United States soon afterwards, living in New York, Kansas City, Missouri, and Los Angeles until her husband accepted an internship at Seattle General Hospital.

2 audiocassettes : analog, mono. 57 leaves.

eng, Latn

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