"Hidden in broad daylight"
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Creator(s)
- Sara Getzler
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.
People
- Getzler, Sara.
Corporate Bodies
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade
Subjects
- Kraków (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry.
- False personation.
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Tarnów.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document