Memoirs (1940-1980)

Identifier
irn504153
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0218
  • RG-02.132
Dates
1 Jan 1980 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504153

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the memoir, translated by Kristina Wise, in July 1994.

Scope and Content

Written in 1980, the text describes how Maria Epstein lived in Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine), during the Soviet occupation; was an inhabitant with her husband in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus; gave birth to and cared for an infant daughter; was liberated from the Germans; escaped from the Soviet Union and fled to Poland; and emigrated with her family to Canada in 1968.

People

  • Epstein, Maria.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.