A memoir relating to experiences in Kraków, Płaszów, and Auschwitz

Identifier
irn501115
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1094
Dates
1 Jan 1995 - 31 Dec 1995
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501115

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ernest Abraham

Ernest Abraham donated his testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 1 page, in English, by Ernest Abraham, who lived in Łódź and Krakow before the war. In the testimony, he writes about the deportation of his parents and sister to Belzec, his own forced labor in Płaszów, where he worked in a shoe factory, his deportatation to Starachowice, to Buna-Monowitz, and his eventual liberation from Buchenwald. Mr. Abraham also briefly describes his post-war family life.

Genre

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