"The story of two sisters"

Identifier
irn504297
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-02.168
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Sara Getzler (b. Markovitz, Poland) emigrated to Palestine in July 1945

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Sara Getzler donated the memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Nov. 1993.

Scope and Content

Describes the experiences of the author's twin sisters, Hela and Rela Markovitz, before World War II; the German invasion of Poland; the confiscation of Jewish property; the establishment of the ghetto in Kraków, Poland; the death of the author's parents; the twins' deportation to and experiences in the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland, and the camps of Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Hasag-Leipzig; Aktionen; the sanitary conditions and distribution of food; sexual favors being sold by female inmates for food; the twins' survival of a death march; their liberation and reunion with surviving family members; their attempts to rebuild their lives after the war and their experiences in a displaced persons camp in Pocking, Germany; and their illegal emigration to Palestine, capture by the British, and their time spent on Cyprus before arriving in Israel.

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