"My Mother's Words"
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Sol Roth
- Marion Amsellem
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carine Mink
Carine Mink donated her grandmother's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 27, 2009.
Scope and Content
Consists of a memoir, entitled "My Mother's Words," about the experiences of Eva Roth, written, transcribed, and edited by her daughter, Marion Amsellem. In Mrs. Roth's memoir, she describes wartime life after her escape from Poland to Russia with her husband, who died in Samarkand during the war. She was remarried to Sol Roth in a displaced persons camp and they immigrated to the United States and reunited with some of Sol's siblings, who had been able to immigrate prior to the war.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Carine Mink
People
- Roth, Sol.
- Roth, Eva.
Subjects
- Samarqand oblasti (Uzbekistan)
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.