The unshed tears

Identifier
irn503767
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0020
  • RG-10.082
Dates
1 Jan 1950 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

9

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Edith Birkin was born in Prague in 1927. In 1941, she was sent with her parents to the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. In 1944, she was sent to Auschwitz and then to Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. In Jan. 1945, she was sent on a death march to Flossenbürg. After spending a short time there, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen, where she was at the time of its liberation. After the Holocaust, she joined a sister and immigrated to England

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

"The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England. In 1993, the manuscript came to the attention of the USHRIA after United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired material from Holocaust Publications, a private publishing house that had acquired the manuscript. Birkin donated the manuscript to the Archives Department in July 1993.

Scope and Content

Although written as fiction, many of the details in "The unshed tears" are based on the experiences of Edith Hofman Birkin and her family during the Holocaust. It describes how the main character, Judith Baron, was deported from Prague to the Łódź ghetto and later to Monowitz; forced to work in Kristianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; and later participated in a death march. The manuscript also details her liberation and her attempts to return to a normal life. "The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

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