From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942

Identifier
irn501670
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0128
Dates
1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 1997
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501670

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Saul M. Bergman

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Saul M. Bergman

Bergman, Saul M. Gift, 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was reunited with his mother and sister in Geneva in 1942.

People

  • Bergmann, Rubin.

Subjects

  • Jews--Belgium--Antwerp.
  • Récébédou (Concentration camp)
  • Namur (Belgium)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium--Antwerp--Personal narratives.
  • Jewish refugees--France--Lot-et-Garonne.
  • Antwerp (Belgium)
  • Wimille (France)
  • Lot-et-Garonne (France)

Genre

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