Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Carolyn Ellis
Publication Date
10-19-2009
Date
2009-04-09
Abstract
This is an oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Philip Gans. Gans was born in the Netherlands in 1928 and lived with his family in Amsterdam until 1942, when his father received a notice of deportation. The family went into hiding and Gans was separated from his parents and siblings for a year. In 1943, when Gans was fifteen, his family was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, where most of them died. Gans was a prisoner at Auschwitz for two years, until it was closed in 1945; after that he was moved to several different camps, ending up at Flossenbürg, where he stayed until it was liberated in April 1945. Gans describes his experiences in hiding, as a prisoner at Auschwitz and other camps, on the death marches from one camp to another, and after liberation. At the end of the interview, his wife Angelica Gans joins the conversation. They describe how they met and got married in 1978. In 1992 Gans began seeing a psychiatrist to discuss his experiences in the Holocaust; he and Mrs. Gans describe the effect that counseling has had on his emotional state.
Keywords
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Holocaust survivors' families, Genocide, Crimes against humanity
Extent
02:59:59; 87 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Amsterdam (Netherlands); Paris (France) (France); Westerbork (Netherlands); Auschwitz (Poland)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
F60-00001
Recommended Citation
Gans, Philip and Gans, Angelica, "Philip Gans and Angelica Gans Oral History Interview" (2009). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 14.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/14
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