"Fighting for Survival" memoir
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Dr. Erwin Kampelmacher donated his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Dec. 26, 2002.
Scope and Content
Consists of a memoir, 218 pages, describing the Holocaust experiences of Erwin Kampelmacher from 1938-1945. The memoir describes his emigration to Holland from Vienna after the Anschluss and his experiences hiding with various Dutch families as a non-Jew and working in various occupations in wartime Holland. The memoir began as a diary, with the pages concerning 1938 written as the events occurred, but the description of the years following 1938 were written fifty years after the war.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document