Memoir entitled "I Never Left Janowska"
Extent and Medium
folders
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Christine Kaplan donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, where she worked as a forced laborer. After the war, she married and emigrated to the United States with her husband.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Christine Kaplan
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document