The beginning of Sam Stammer's life as written by him in German

Identifier
irn504330
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0286
  • RG-02.178
Dates
1 Jan 1983 - 31 Dec 1984
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Terri Israeli donated the memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.

Scope and Content

Describes Samuel Stammer’s (Dornfeld, Austria, 05 Jul 1905 - ) childhood in Austria and life in the Free City of Gdansk (Danzig); his experiences as a Polish soldier during the German invasion and as a prisoner-of-war; his transport to and experiences in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos (including: Majdanek, the Lowicz ghetto, the Warsaw ghetto, the Miedzyrzec ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Schlier Redl-Zipf, and Ebensee); the death of family members at Treblinka; his work counterfeiting American and British money for the Nazis; his liberation and being a displaced person in Gmunden, Austria; and his immigration to the United States in 1950.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Samuel Stammer

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