Ernest Sterzer memoir
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Florence Sterzer Note: The donor wishes Florence Zweiben, the widow of Ernest Sterzer, be credited in any use of the memoir.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Beverly Zweiben donated the Ernest Sterzer memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2010. Beverly Zweiben is the neice of Ernest Sterzer.
Scope and Content
The Ernest Sterzer memoir consists of a copy of a memoir, 23 pages, untitled, by Ernest Sterzer, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which is in English, Mr. Sterzer describes his experiences as an insulin-dependent diabetic during the Holocaust, including his family's 1942 deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin), and the lengths his family went to in order to obtain insulin. In October 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he eventually went into the hospital because he didn't have insulin. He was deported to Heinkel, Germany, where he performed forced labor, sporadically obtaining insulin, and from there, to Oranienburg. He was liberated on a death march by the American Army near Schwerin, Germany on May 2, 1945.
System of Arrangement
The Ernest Sterzer memoir is arranged in a single series.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Beverly Zweiben
People
- Sterzer, Fred.
- Sterzer, Karl.
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
- Sterzer, Gerda.
- Sterzer, Rosa.
- Sterzer, Ernest, 1925-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Vienna (Austria)
- Austria.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Schwerin (Germany)
- Germany.
- Diabetes.
- Czech Republic.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document