At the focus of the article is how the process of generating oral history contributes to the creation of gendered history. The study follows two paths to proof the hypothesis that researchers participate in the creation and reinforcement of gender stereotypes and engendering the subject. First, it analyses life story interviews with female and male survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp, concerning how the interviewees draw genders, and about which gendered topics do wo/men speak (or do not speak). Secondly, it looks at the role of the interviewer: what kind of questions does s/he ask women respectively men, and do gender-specific questions produce otherwise non-mentioned topics or reduce interviewees to their assumed gender roles. The analysis shows that doing gender is a common pattern in oral history interviews and therefore needed to be reflected on.