Oral history interview with Mary Berges
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Ellen Szakal
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Mary Berges on July 21, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
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
- Mary Berges
- Berges, Mary, 1935-
- Ellen Szakal
Subjects
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Belgium.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--Belgium.
- Foster children--United States.
- Jewish orphans--Belgium.
- Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Jewish orphanages--Belgium.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Belgium.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jews--Beligum--Antwerp.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939- 1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust survivors--Psychology.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Belgium.
Genre
- Oral History
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