Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Hirsh, Michael
Publication Date
February 2009
Abstract
This is an oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Hana Berger Moran. 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
Concentration camps--History--Austria, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation, World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovaia--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Holocaust survivors--California, Genocide, Crimes against humanity
Holding Location
University of South Florida
Language
English
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
audio/mp3
Identifier
C65-00090
Recommended Citation
Moran, Hana Berger, "Hana Berger Moran oral history interview" (2009). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 78.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/78
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