Scope and Contents
Documents cover German reparation payments, life in Atlanta and Europe directly post-WW2, and the family’s escape from Germany in 1939.
Dates
- 1824 - 1997
Creator
- Spielberg, Gisela Meyer, 1926-2018 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on accessing material in this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Gisela (Gia) Diana Meyer Spielberg was born on September 29, 1926 in Berlin, Germany to Jewish German World War One veteran Henrich Meyer and his wife Lieselotte Kohn. The family, including a younger sister Erika born 1930, suffered the rising antisemitism in Germany following Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. Through family connections and luck, the family was able to escape to England weeks before war broke out in Europe and eventually made their way to the United States where they finally settled in Atlanta, GA. Gisela passed away on February 4, 2018 in Pikeville, Maryland at age 91.
Extent
2.6 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
German
French
Dutch; Flemish
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
A German immigrant to the United States in the middle of the Second World War, Gisela Meyer Spielberg and her family made a life for themselves in Atlanta, GA following the antisemitic rule of Hitler which they only just barely escaped.
Arrangement
All material is arranged by subject and then chronologically within each series.
- Antisemitism Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Atlanta (Ga.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Holocaust survivors Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Jews, German Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Kristallnacht, 1938 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Gisela Meyer Spielberg Family Papers, Mss 414
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Repository
1440 Spring St. NW
Atlanta Georgia 30309 United States
678-222-3700
