Holocaust recollections the stories of ten Hamiltonians who survived
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The USHRIA received a copy of the essay in Jul 1994.
Scope and Content
Describes the experiences of ten Holocaust survivors who settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Includes accounts of survivors who: survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, the Warsaw Ghetto, Płaszów, Buchenwald, Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt) Hungarian labor battalions, work camps in Silesia, and Aktionen; worked in factories where V-2 rockets and/or German ordnance was assembled; passed as gentiles and/or escaped the Nazis and their collaborators via other means; hid their children; and lost family members.
People
- Rosen, Jack.
- Szpirglas, Sam.
- Joseph, Helen Moskovits.
- Schoenberg, David.
- Bogart, Paul Boguchwal.
- Gross, Helen Mandelovitz.
- Freeman, Rena Kilman.
- Solomon, Maier.
- Schwartz, Elizabeth Ormai.
- Vine, Helen Goldberg.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Hiding places.
- V-2 rocket.
- Jewish children.
- False personation.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Canada.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
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.