Oral history interview with Sia Hertsberg
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Lillian Klein
Biographical History
Lillian Klein, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on September 5, 1996, in Washington, D.C.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Ms. Sia Hertsberg
- Hertsberg, Sia, 1927-
- Lillian Klein
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Women--Crimes against--Latvia.
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Rumbula Massacre, Rumbula, Latvia, 1941.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Latvia.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Latvia.
- Death.
- Death march survivors.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Latvia--History--Soviet occupation, 1940-1941.
- Sztutowo (Poland)
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Riga.
- Corpse removals.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
- Sisters.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Latvia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Antisemitism--Latvia--Riga.
- Kolomna (Russia)
- Child concentration camp inmates--Care.
- Altruism.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Women dressmakers.
- Crematoriums.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Sex crimes.
- Jews--Latvia--Riga.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Latvia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Latvia.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Latvia.
- Riga (Latvia)
- Parents--Death.
- Jewish families--Latvia--Riga.
- Hiding places--Latvia.
- Typhus fever.
Genre
- Oral History
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