"Hidden in broad daylight"

Identifier
irn504298
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-02.169
Level of Description
Item
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 and poems to the United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives in Nov. 1993.

Scope and Content

Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family members; how she passed as a Gentile and found employment; her attempts to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates; her move to and war-time employment in Austria; the end of World War II; her meeting with members of the Jewish Brigade; and her illegal emigration to Palestine. The memoir also includes a poem about a young Jewish boy whose fate during the Holocaust is unknown and another describing the author's feelings for the Jews who died in the Holocaust.

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.