"Piles of Pine Needles"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Roberta Fleishman
Roberta Fleishman donated a copy of her cousin's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2011. The memoir has also been published by Yad Vashem in the original Hebrew.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Piles of Pine Needles" written in 2005 by Abraham Shavit (born Strikovsky), originally of Skępe, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Shavit describes his deportation to the Szczechowo ghetto, life in hiding on a farm near Osowo, and post-war life in the Feldafing displaced persons camps. Mr. Shavit also describes his immigration to Uruguay and from there, to Israel. The memoir, which was translated into English by Mr. Shavit's son.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Abraham Shavit
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document