"The Shadow of My Youth"

Identifier
irn504150
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0215
  • RG-02.129
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504150

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah

Acquisition

Pessia Zislin-Antikol-Galwen's daughter, Sarah Milshtein, translated the text into English at an unknown date, and she donated a copy to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Mar. 1994.

Scope and Content

The English translation, from the Yiddish, of Pessia Zislin-Antikol-Galwen's memoir, describes her life in Krāslava, Latvia, before the German occupation, her family's internment in the ghetto in Daugavpils, Latvia, Aktionen that occurred in the ghetto, how she met her first husband, their life together, her pregnancy, and her eventual liberation. Pessia later imigrated to Israel in 1958.

People

  • Zislin-Antikol-Galwen, Pessia.

Subjects

  • Krāslava (Latvia)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Daugavpils.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
  • Pregnancy.
  • Daugavpils (Latvia)
  • Latvia.

Genre

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