Helen Freibrun memoir and photograph

Identifier
irn503629
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0001
  • RG-02.068.01
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1992
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503629

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Helen Freibrun

Biographical History

Helen Freibrun (1926-2011) was born in Usharod, Czechoslovakia (now Uzhgorod, Ukraine). She had five brothers and one sister. The family was forced into a ghetto before being deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Helen was tattooed with the number A999-1. Helen survived selections by Dr. Josef Mengele, and was eventually sent on a death march to Mauthausen concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Of their family, only Helen and one of her brothers survived the Holocaust. Helen met her husband, Jerry, in a displaced persons camp. They immigrated to the United States in 1947 and were married. Helen and Jerry Freibrun settled in Medford, New York and have one daughter. Helen’s brother also immigrated to the United States and settled in New Jersey. He married and has three children.

Archival History

Ms. Helen Freibrun

Acquisition

Helen Friebrun donated the Helen Freibrun memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.

Scope and Content

The Helen Freibrun memoir consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir containing information about Helen Freibrun's life in Usharod (Uzhgorod), Czechoslovakia, before the Holocaust; her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was involved in selections by Josef Mengele and interactions with a female Nazi named Ilse; her experiences in Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; her survival of a death march; and the start of her new life in the United States. Also included is a photocopied photograph of Helen Freibrun and her brother six months after the end of World War II.

System of Arrangement

The Helen Freibrun memoir is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979.
  • Freibrun, Helen, 1926-2011.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

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