Doris Rauch and Norbert Troller papers

August 26, 1920 - Born Doris Perlhefter in Brno,Czechoslovakia 1938 - after Hitler occupied the Sudetenland, she wore the Czech flag in her lapel; upon graduating from gymnasium, went to textile school as Jews were not permitted to go to the university,wore yellow star, 7 PM curfew; No telephones or contact with friends, visited uncle Norbert Troller on weekends 1941 - Deportations started, uncle and family taken away; Doris and mother got notice to report, train to Theresienstadt; Dresdener barracks - slept on floor with 8 others,worked in post office; Went voluntarily to Krivoklat, Bohemia for 6 weeks to plant trees Summer 1942 - transports began in Theresienstadt - able to avoid 2 of them September 1942 -Put on train to Riga, then to Raasiku camp in Estonia; SS had them write postcards saying that everything was fine, mother put on bus; 50 women on 2 platforms in barracks, unpacked and sorted luggage; harvested potatoes for 6 weeks on an agricultural settlement December 1942 - taken to Reval prison (Tallinn), raw fish heads for breakfast; worked for German construction firm clearing rubble at the harbor, stayed 1 year December 1943 - sent to Erida labor camp; lived in barracks, had lice and fleas, felled trees, carried them on shoulders; Evacuated to Legedi outside Reval as Russians came closer, stayed 6 weeks; Went to Stutthof by 2 boats- had lice and hepatitis August 26, 1944 - left, had pneumonia and typhoid October 1944 - went to Hamburg-Ochsenznoll, had pneumonia, pleurisy and enteritis; Cattle car to Luneburg - Marched to Bergen-Belsen; Marched from Tzelen near Hanover sleeping in the woods; Got back to Hamburg which was filled with evacuees April 1945 - went to Malmo, Sweden for 2 years, worked for the World Jewish Congress

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Doris Rauch

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by the Estate of Doris Rauch.