Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
February 2009
Abstract
Hana Berger Moran was born in Freiburg, a sub-camp of Flossenbürg, on April 12, 1945. Her parents were deported from Bratislava to Auschwitz in 1944, where her parents were separated; her father died two weeks before the war ended. Two days after Moran was born, the prisoners were transported by train to Mauthausen, arriving there on April 29. The camp was liberated by soldiers from the 11th Armored Division on May 5. One of the division's medics, LeRoy Petersohn, saw that Moran had a skin infection and needed immediate treatment, so he fetched a doctor and the two men surgically cleaned the wounds. After the war, Moran and her mother went back to Bratislava, where they lived until 1968; they emigrated to Israel and later to the United States. In 2005, she decided to find the medic who had saved her and was reunited with Petersohn at the sixtieth anniversary celebration of Mauthausen's liberation.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Holocaust survivors, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Freiburg (Concentration camp), Mauthausen (Concentration camp), Military medicine, Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:39:44; 20 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Freiburg (Germany); Mauthausen (Austria); Bratislava (Slovakia); Oświęcim (Poland : Powiat)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00090
Recommended Citation
Moran, Hana Berger, "Hana Berger Moran Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 78.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/78
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