"From Jaslo - Through Hell - to Freedom"

Identifier

irn500924

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1995.A.0770

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500924

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Edward Blonder

Scope and Content

Testimony, typescript (photocopy), 36 pages, by Edward Blonder, written in 1981. Describes childhood in Jaslo, Poland; German invasion and occupation; creation of ghetto in Jaslo and eventual destruction of that ghetto and transfer to Przemyśl ghetto, then Auschwitz and various labor camps (including Ebensee); liberation and immigration to the United States.

Genre

Personal narratives.
Document

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