Frederick Bergmann memoir

Identifier

irn500819

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1995.A.0510

Dates

1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500819

Extent and Medium

folder

Creator(s)

Frederick E. Bergmann

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Frederick Bergmann

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Mr. Frederick E. Bergmann

Scope and Content

Testimony, typescript, two pages, undated, written by Frederick Bergmann, recording childhood in Fuerth, education, emigration in summer 1939, internment as enemy alien, first in England, and then in Canada for duration of war, enlistment in Canadian Army toward end of war and deployment with occupation troops in Germany.

Genre

Document
Personal narratives.

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