Eva Gottheiner oral history interview, 1993 March 4

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Summary

Creators:
Gottheiner, Eva, Prozan, Sylvia, and Goldman, Charles
Abstract:
This collection comprises one videotape of an oral history interview with Eva Gottheiner conducted by the Holocaust Oral History Project on March 4, 1993.
Extent:
0.2 Linear feet comprising two videotapes with a total running time of 3:45
Language:
Preferred citation:

Eva Gottheiner oral history interview - OHP.3619, Tauber Holocaust Library, JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises one videotape of an oral history interview with Eva Gottheiner. The interview was conducted by Sylvia Prozan on behalf of the Holocaust Oral History Project on March 4, 1993. Eva Gottheiner is a Holocaust survivor.

The interview describes Ms. Gottheiner's childhood in Breslau, Silesia; her memories of anti-Semitism under the Nazi regime and its effect on her life; the events of Kristallnacht in 1938; and her father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp. Ms. Gottheiner describes the family's flight to Shanghai, China in December 1938 and her experiences during the sea voyage from Genoa, Italy. She describes the ten years she lived in China, her experiences in the Hong Kew ghetto, the bombing of the ghetto by American war planes, and her marriage in 1942. Ms. Gottheiner discusses her and her husband's work with the United States Army after the war ended, their emigration to the United States in 1949, and their first impressions of San Francisco, where the couple settled.

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Preferred citation:

Eva Gottheiner oral history interview - OHP.3619, Tauber Holocaust Library, JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, California

Location of this collection:
JFCS Holocaust Center
2245 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115, US
Contact:
(415) 449-3717
HolocaustCenter@jfcs.org
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