Interview with Hanna Berger of Selma, Alabama, whose parents left Nazi Germany for the United States in early 1938.

Berger's parents first lived in New York before moving to Selma around 1939. During this interview, conducted by Louisa Weinrib of Montgomery, she discusses their lives and her own experience growing up Jewish in the South. From 1990 to 1992, Weinrib interviewed five Jewish World War II veter...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/records/id/544
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Summary:Berger's parents first lived in New York before moving to Selma around 1939. During this interview, conducted by Louisa Weinrib of Montgomery, she discusses their lives and her own experience growing up Jewish in the South. From 1990 to 1992, Weinrib interviewed five Jewish World War II veterans and nine Jews who were either Holocaust survivors or descendents of survivors. (The term "Holocaust survivor" is defined by the Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors as a "person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, and political policies of the Nazis and their Allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes refugees, people in hiding, etc.")