"Beshert: It was Meant to Be"
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Suzanna Eibuszyc
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Suzanna Eibuszyc
Susanna Eibuszyc donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 20, 2008.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 212 pages, entitled "Beshert: It was Meant to Be", written in 1975 by Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and translated into English in 2007 by her daughter, Suzanna Eibuszyc. Part one of the memoir is entitled "At the Mercy of Our Luck" and covers April 1917-November 1939, when the family lived in Warsaw, and the second part of the memoir is entitled "The Troubles I've Seen" and covers November 1939-March 1946, when the family was forced to flee to southwestern Russia and Uzbekistan. Ms. Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and her sister and brother, who were also unmarried, spent the war in very primitive conditions, and includes in her memoir many details about their experiences.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Suzanna Eibuszyc
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document