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Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Ruth Ilan-Porath donated the memoir to the United States Holocaust Research Institute in 1994.
Scope and Content
Describes a German family's life before, during, and after the Holocaust; author's childhood in Germany; anti-Jewish discrimination; relocation to France and subsequently within France; the family's internment in the camps of Limoges, Nexon, Gurs, and Drancy; hiding under assumed identities; and the fates of family members.
People
- Ilan-Porath, Ruth, 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Nexon (Concentration camp)
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
- Drancy (Internament camp)
Subjects
- Nantes (France)
- Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--Biography.
- Antisemitism.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France.
- Poitiers (France)
- Jewish families.
- Mézières (Ardennes, France)
- Limoges (France)
- Jews, German--France.
Genre
- Document