A void in my heart the memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, (1927- )
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Regina Godinger Hoffman donated a copy of her memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in1993.
Scope and Content
The memoir describes Regina Hoffman's (b. 1927) deportation from Czechoslovakia to Poland, the deaths of family members, her psychological trauma, internment in the ghetto in Khust, Ukraine, life in Auschwitz and her transfer to camps in Nuremberg, Germany, and Holešov (Holeshovitz), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), liberation, and immigration to the United States in 1948.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews, Czech--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Czech Republic--Holešov.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Nuremberg.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Khust.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Khust.
- Khust (Ukraine)
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document