Helga Roth collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Helga Roth
Scope and Content
Contains material relating to Alma Frieda Exner, nee Held, consisting of a brief memoir of her daughter, Mrs. FNU Redeker, describing her experience as a young child being grabbed by a women on the way to school, forced onto a train and sent to a boarding school in Gross-Rosen (Germany) where she received no mail or information about her family; her later move to her grandmother's home in Goerlitz (Germany); her and her father's visits to her mother who was in prison in Goerlitz and later sent to the psychiatric clinic in Bunzlau (Poland); the death by lethal injection of her mother on February 25, 1940; and her discovery, in 1981, that her mother had been visited by two strangers and later arrested because she was a Jehovah's Witness and had assisted Jewish families; an incomplete questionnaire about Mrs. Exner; and a black-and-white photograph of Mrs. Exner with an unidentified man are included.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document