Fragments of a childhood and youth autobiographical memories
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Werner J. Lipton
Biographical History
Werner Jacob Lipton (Liebschüz) left Germany in 1939 for Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes).
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Mr. Lipton donated his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Dec. 3, 1996.
Scope and Content
Contains a memoir of Werner Jacob Lipton (b. Liebschüz) in which he describes life in prewar Mindelheim, Germany; how life changed for Jews after 1938; the boarding schools he attended when Jewish children were banned from German public schools; his parents' decision in 1939 to send him to Switzerland where relatives could provide for him; his time in Swiss Kinderheime (children's homes) in Herrliberg and Männedorf; and his postwar life in the United States to which he immigrated in 1946. The memoir includes captioned family photographs, hand-drawn maps of southern Germany and Switzerland, and an obituary of Abraham Gundelfinger, a relative who helped finance his immigration to the United States.
People
- Gundelfinger, Abraham, 1870-1949.
- Bach family.
- Werner J. Lipton
- Liebschüz family.
- Lipton, Werner J., 1928-
Subjects
- Switzerland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Children--Institutional care--Switzerland--Männedorf.
- Children--Institutional care--Switzerland--Herrliberg.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Switzerland.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Schools--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.