"Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain"

Identifier
irn41736
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.298.1
Dates
1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2009
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Gans

Dr. Henry Gans donated this material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on August 10, 2010.

Scope and Content

Consists of two chapters of a memoir entitled "Living Surgical History, or Sisyphus at the Water Fountain" by Dr. Henry Gans, originally of Zevenaar, the Netherlands. In these chapters, Dr. Gans describes his memories of his schooling in Arnhem under the German occupation of the Netherlands, learning his father was selected for deportation to Westerbork, and the decision for his family to go into hiding. Dr. Gans, a teenager at the time, spent thirty months in hiding with his brother at a farm in Angelo, a small village in the Netherlands. The family was reunited after the Allied liberation of the Netherlands.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Dr. Henry Gans

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