A short autobiography
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Zvi Baumrin
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Zvi Baumrin donated a copy of his memoir to the USHMMA in Nov. 1993.
Scope and Content
Zvi Baumrin's memoir describes: Baumrin's childhood in Poland; his escape from an Aktion during which his father and some other relatives were killed; his mother's and brother's experiences inside a ghetto and their death; his work in an unnamed concentration camp; his transport in a cattle car and his subsequent escape; his hiding until the end of the war in the L'vov ghetto and in the house of a gentile friend of his father's; and his emigration to Israel.
Subjects
- Hiding places.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Men authors.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Lʹviv.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Jews--Poland.
- Winniki (Poland)
- Concentration camps.
- Deportation.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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