The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Bruno Keith donated his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document
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