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Children of the Holocaust - Gisella Renate Berg

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Hello, My name is Gisella Berg. I was on May 1, 1933, in a small village in Germany. I live with my parents, my sister, Igne, and my grandparents. My father worked as a cattle dealer and worked with jews and non-jew. My parents never let me go outside to play, they said it was too dangerous and they wanted to keep me safe. One day when I  was 5 there was an event that happened called the night of the broken glass. I didn't go through it but a friend told my family about it. My family was scared. In May 1939 after I turned 6 we fled to Kenya for safety. When we got to Kenya I was still able to continue being educated with my sister. In 1947 we moved to the United States where my family started their own chicken farm. I got my high school diploma and in 1957 I married a man named Kurt Pauly who also had fled from Germany.

Gisella Renate Berg

Responses: 

Hi Gisella, I am glad your family was able to flee Germany and survive the war. My daughter and I also survived the war, but the rest of my family did not. My daughter that survived also moved to the United States around the same time you did. My daughter, Frida, arrived in May of 1946.
Hi Gisella, I'm Margot. I am so happy to hear that you and your family were able to flee to America. I was able to as well, but I was separated from my family and I haven't seen them since I was 14. How are things? Where did you settle and are you still there?

Hi Margot, 
I settled in Lawrence, New Jersey. I graduated from college in 1947. I now volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum which is in Washington DC. I have two kids and a husband who was a nazi who fled Germany. Where did you settle? Are you married? What do you do for a job?

Hi Gisella! I'm really glad to hear that you and your family were able to flee and escape from Germany. I was the only one in my family that escaped getting arrested and taken in Belgium. One thing we have in common though is that we both immigrated to the United States. 
-Frida Adler 

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