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Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Wolf Ajzowicz
Biographical History
Wolf Ajzowicz (1932-1990) wrote the narrative after having read about William Eisen.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Wolf Ajzowicz's daughter, Annette, donated the narrative to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
Historical fiction narrative describing the experiences of William Eisen (Wolf Ajzowicz) including the public humiliation of Polish Jews by Germans; death of family members; his internment in a ghetto and many concentration camps including Skarżysko-Kamienna, Rakow, the Miechow ghetto, Krakow-Płaszów, and Buchenwald; a death march; his reunion with his sister and a cousin; the displaced persons camps of Judenburg, Austria, and Landsberg am Lech, Germany; and his immigration to the United States. Note: this work of fiction contains some inaccuracies (i.e. gas chambers are said to have been used to kill prisoners in Buchenwald; homosexuals are said to have worn green triangles; soap is said to have been made from the fat of Jews; an evacuation hospital is called a MASH Unit; etc.).
People
- Ajzowicz, Wolf.
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Concentration camp)
- Raków (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Miechow.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Document