The undying spark from generation to generation
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
In Oct. 1991 Auerbach gave his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library. In July 1994 it was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.
Scope and Content
The memoir describes the Jewish community of Shershev, Ukraine; how the author and his family were deported to the Pruzhany ghetto and from there to the concentration camp of Auschwitz; and Auerbach's emigration to the United States and his assimilation into American culture.
People
- Auerbach, Jacob.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Autobiographies.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Pruzhany.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Shershev (Ukraine)
- Jews--Cultural assimilation.
- Jews--Soviet Union.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.