"From Darkness to Light" memoir

Identifier

irn514337

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2003.395

Dates

1 Jan 1980 - 31 Dec 1980

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514337

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Michael Falk donated his grandmother's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Dec. 12, 2003.

Scope and Content

Memoir, 13 pages, relates the experiences of Barbara (Borka) Klima nee Rozsa, who hid from the Nazis in Slovakia, in many different houses and situations, while also trying to protect her young daughter Eva, who was hidden in a Christian orphanage. The memoir also details their immediate post-war experiences and emigration to the United States in 1949.

Genre

Document
Personal Narratives.

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