Oral history interview with Paula Gerson
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Gail Schwartz
Biographical History
The interview with Paula Gerson was conducted on October 12, 1989 as part of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington's oral history project to document Washington, DC area survivor's experiences of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the interview on May 26, 1993.
Archival History
Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Gerson, Paula, 1910-
- Gail Schwartz
- Paula Gerson
Corporate Bodies
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
- World ORT Union
Subjects
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Poland--Zamosc.
- Linz (Austria)
- Dressmakers.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Jewish refugees--Russia (Federation)--Sverdlovskaia oblast'.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Ural Mountains Region (Russia)
- Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
- Waldram (Germany)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Sverdlovskaia oblast' (Russia)
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Railroad travel--Russia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Jewish refugees--Uzbekistan.
- Refugee camps.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- L'viv (Ukraine)
- Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic)
- Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
- Zamosc (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History
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