Interview with Gertrud Mainzer,
Project: Voices of the Holocaust Oral History Project
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Gertrud Mainzer tells of her family's escape from Frankfurt, Germany to the Netherlands in 1933 when Hitler rose to power in Germany, after which they were safe until the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. Subsequently, she explains, her husband was arrested and in 1942 she and her two children went into hiding separately. She describes her hearing of her children's capture by the Germans one year later, after which she followed them into Westerbork transit camp (Netherlands), and from there to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (Germany). She describes Bergen-Belsen, where she and her children were detained until their liberation by the Allies in 1945.Interview Accession
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World War, 1939-1945--Concentration campsInterview Rights
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