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Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

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Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert, and reflections on the Holocaust and Jewishness.
Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Journal: Citizen Ambassador Program, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots Delegation to the Soviet Union, May 3-16, 1990 (open access)

Journal: Citizen Ambassador Program, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots Delegation to the Soviet Union, May 3-16, 1990

Journal documenting the trip several Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II took to Moscow, Russia in 1990 to meet with a group of Russian Night Witches who also served in the war. The book includes a biography section of each WASP that made the trip, letters from the WASP to Presidents Bush and Gorbachev, and a letter from the Soviets. Two loose leaflets included with the book are a bibliography of books about the WASP and a flyer from Texas A&M Press about a new book on WASP training at Avenger Field to be released.
Date: 1990-05-03/1990-05-24
Creator: Lazarsky, Barbara Ward
System: The Portal to Texas History