Frieda Greenspan memoir

Identifier
irn47565
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.371.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47565

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hedy Bressler

Hedvah (Hedy) Bressler donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her late father was a neighbor of Frieda Greenspan

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, entitled "Some of my personal memories of the dark years of the Holocaust" written by Frieda Greenspan in May 1981. In the memoir, she describes her experiences at Płaszów concentration camp, her transfer to Auschwitz, switching identities with another prisoner to be able to stay in Auschwitz with her younger sister, escaping from a forced march after the evacuation from Auschwitz, and her experiences in hiding with her sister and friend. They were liberated by the Red Army in Poland in February 1944.

People

  • Greenspan, Frieda.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Genre

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