Panama Canal plot written by Eric Rath
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Sylvia Rath donated the Panama Canal plot to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
Testimony, typescript, 268 pages, titled "I Pledged Myself" by Eric Rath, originally written in 1946 and edited and researched by Sylvia Rath and Carol Jackson in 1987. Slightly novelized memoir of Eric Rath, discussing origins and family in Frankfurt, Germany, an escape from Germany, and experiences in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
System of Arrangement
The Panama Canal plot is arranged in a single series.
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