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Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, and other eyewitnesses, recorded by the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project throughout the s and s in the San Francisco, CA area. Ilse Kaye describes her childhood in Hannover, Germany; her early memories of antisemitism; her experiences living in Holland from to ; her father losing his bank after the Nazis rose to power in ; her decision to leave Europe in ; immigrating to Palestine; her decision to leave Palestine for the United States to join her mother after her father died in ; her marriage and family life in the United States; and her feelings of antipathy toward Germany.
Luba Keller describes her childhood in Szydlowiec, Poland; her memories of the Nazi invasion; the persecution the Jewish community endured; the mass deportations of the Jewish community in ; the conditions at the munitions factory where she was sent; her time in camps in Czestochowa and Feldafing, a subcamp of Dachau; her deporation to Bergen-Belsen; her experiences on a death march to Allach; her liberartion; the fate of her parents and sisters, who all perished; her immigration to the United States with her husband in ; their work and family life in New York City and California; and their reluctance to discuss their Holocaust experiences with their children.
Robert Koehorst describes his experiences in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation; his father's activities in the underground and hiding the valuables of Jewish neighbors; his father's arrest after being informed on by a neighbor; his mother and sister's continued participation in underground activities; his father's release from jail; his experiences in hiding with his father and brother from to ; his decision to immigrate to the United States; his service in the Unite States Army and his family life and marriages.
Adda Gerstel discusses her childhood in Breslau, Germany now Wroclaw, Poland ; her education in a private school and her graduation from business school in ; the death of her mother in and her father in ; her brother losing his work as an attorney because of anti-Jewish laws and taking over the family brewery; her marriage in ; her memories of the events of Kristallnacht in November , when both her husband and her brother were arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp; the release of her husband and brother; her brother's immigration to the United States; fleeing Germany for Shanghai, China with her husband and young daughter in June ; her experiences in a refugee camp in Shanghai, and in the Hong-Kew Hongkou Qu ghetto; immigrating to the United States after the war; her family life in San Francisco, CA; and her brother's return to Germany.
