My years under the Hitler terror

Identifier
irn504326
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0327
  • RG-02.177
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504326

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Elizabeth Kitsinger found Ostermann's memoir among her father's possessions after he died. In Dec. 1993, she donated it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scope and Content

Describes Peter Ostermann's arrest for expressing anti-Nazi opinions; his internment as a political prisoner in numerous German prisons and concentration camps including Tiefenbach, Bad Kreuznach, Koblenz, Cologne (Koln), Hannover, Berlin, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau; and his release from Nazi custody.

People

  • Ostermann, Peter.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
  • Political prisoners--Health and hygiene.

Genre

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.