How an optimist survived the thousand year Reich

Identifier

irn500438

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1994.A.0366

Level of Description

Item

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500438

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the USHMM by Hans-Peter Messerschmidt in 1994.

Scope and Content

Testimony, typescript (copied and bound), 136 pages, describing the author's chilhood and life in Berlin, deportation, and how he voluntarily joined family members who had been deported to Auschwitz, and later experiences in other camps such as Buchenwald.

Genre

Personal narratives.
Document

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