"Strangers in the Heartland"

Identifier
irn504240
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0206
  • RG-02.142
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Donald M. Douglas donated his essay, “Strangers in the Heartland,” to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 1994.

Scope and Content

Donald M. Douglas wrote the essay, "Strangers in the Heartland" in January 1989. The essay consists of three parts, accounts of those who escaped from Europe, of those who survived in Polish forests, and of one man who survived Auschwitz. The narratives include such subjects as: emigrating to the United States, Kristallnacht, resistance movements and partisans, male rape, and the conditions inside concentration camps.

System of Arrangement

"Strangers in the Heartland" is arranged in a single series.

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