"My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia"

Identifier
irn515299
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.191
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515299

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Branka Sondheim and Marcel Mayer donated their mother's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Mar. 24, 2003.

Scope and Content

Consists of memoir, 48 pages, entitled "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia," by Henrietta Mayer-Juhn. In the memoir, she describes her experiences during the years 1939-1942 regarding her family's escape from Yugoslavia, including her memories of her husband's arrest, deportation and of learning of his death in the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1942. She and her daughter, Brankica, went into hiding, escaping the deportations through which she lost the rest of her family.

Genre

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.