Oral history interview with Gerda Cohn
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gerda Cohn on October 21, 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in August 1999.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Gerda Cohn
- Cohn, Gerda, 1914-
Subjects
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jewish families--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Wroclaw (Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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