The three lives of Gizel Berman
Extent and Medium
folders
5
,
1 sound cassette (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Gizel Berman
Biographical History
Gizel Berman (née Herskovits, Uz︠h︡horod, Ukraine, 1919 - ) immigrated to the United States in 1946.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
In 1993 Gizel Berman donated the memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Scope and Content
The memoir describes Gizel Berman's childhood in Uz︠h︡horod, Ukraine, and Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, her schooling in Brussels, Belgium, the imprisonment and torture of Berman's boyfriend, Nick, her reunion with Nick and their marriage, their deportation to Auschwitz, Berman's transfer and life in Stutthof and her physical separation from her husband, her liberation and return to Uz︠h︡horod, her reunion with her husband, their immigration and assimilation into American culture, and their daughter's experiences with antisemitism.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Sobrance (Slovakia)
- Antisemitism--United States.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document