When the living envied the dead

Identifier
irn504261
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0258
  • RG-02.165
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504261

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Anna Gerut

Biographical History

Anna Gerut (née Chana Dina Leah Warszawski; Łódź, Poland, 15 May 1922- ) immigrated to the United States in 1950.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Anna Gerut donated a copy of her memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.

Scope and Content

Describes her childhood in Poland; her imprisonment in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her incarceration in Auschwitz; the fate of her family; her reunion with her sister in Poland; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation of Germany; the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and their emigration to the United States in 1950.

People

  • Gerut, Leo.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
  • Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
  • Łódź (Poland)

Genre

  • Document
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