"Surviving the Death March" memoir

Identifier
irn514849
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.248
Dates
1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2004
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514849

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Sam Silberberg donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Mar. 1, 2004.

Scope and Content

Consists of a memoir, 15 pages, relating Sam Silberberg's memories of a death march, between the Blechhammer concentration camp and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, that took place in late January 1945. Mr. Silberberg managed to escape the death march after one week and reunited with his mother, who was hiding in Neisse, Germany (Nysa, Poland), as an Aryan. His father, who was also on the march from Blechhammer, perished before reaching Gross-Rosen.

Genre

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