Gittel Jaskulski Hunt

Gittel Jaskulski Hunt (F / Germany, 1942), Holocaust survivor

• KEYWORDS : <Theresienstadt> <Liberation of Theresienstadt> -- <United States>

Biography

Gittel Jaskulski was born November 5, 1942 in Berlin, Germany. She was deported with her grandmother to Theresienstadt, where she remained until Liberation in May 1945. She emigrated to the United States in 1951.

USHMM Oral History Collection

Gittel Jaskulski Hunt, born November 5, 1942 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her parents; how her Jewish grandmother took care of her when her parents had to do forced labor; her grandmother being protected for a time from deportation because her husband was Catholic; her parents' deportation to Auschwitz; her grandmother’s deportation to Theresienstadt and taking Gittel with her, believing it was her best chance for survival; not remembering Theresienstadt; immigrating to the United States in 1951 and settling in Chicago, IL; learning about her story from her grandmother; adjusting to life in the US; her education and nurses’ training; experiencing antisemitism in Chicago; and attending a gathering of Holocaust survivors in Israel in 1981.