Sara Weber Schwimmer memoir

Identifier
irn38007
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.275
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Hessing

Judith Hessing donated her mother's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 28 Sept. 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of a bound copy of a memoir, handwritten by Sara Weber Schwimmer, originally of Czechoslovakia. The memoir, addressed to her children and grandchildren, describes her childhood, memories of her siblings, and her memories of chores and recipes. She describes how various countries occupied her area, and her memories of moving to Budapest. She spent most of the war in Budapest, and remembers life in Hungary in 1944, enduring antisemitic persecution. She was ordered to perform forced labor and describes witnessing a mass shooting. She was then turned over to the Germans and deported, first to Buchenwald, then to Ravensbrück, and from there to Burgau. The memoir is incomplete.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Sara Schwimmer

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.