Sweisserok

Identifier
irn516215
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.97
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Erzsebet Frank was born in 1918 in Mezökeresztes, Hungary. She was transferred from Auschwitz to the Junkers-Markkleeberg slave labor detail outside of Leipzig in 1944. She describes the experience in her book, "365 Nap: Vallomàs a Pokolok Tüzéböl" ("365 Days: Testimony from Hell's Inferno"), which she had begun drafting at Markkleeberg.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elizabeth Mermel

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Elizabeth Zucker Mermel donated "Sweisserok" to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.

Scope and Content

The poem "Sweisserok" was written by Erzsebet Frank at Markkleeberg in 1945 and describes the friendship and daily lives of twelve welders at the Junkers-Markkleeberg slave labor camp during the Holocaust. The poem features an illustration of the welders by a fellow laborer, possibly a young woman named Gizella. One of the welders described in the poem is Erszebet Zucker (later Elizabeth Mermel, b. 1924, Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary), who carried the poem during the death march evacuation from Markkleeberg in April 1945. (Zahava Szász Stessel describes the creation and preservation of the poem in her book, "Snow Flowers: Hungarian Jewish Women in an Airplane Factory, Markkleeberg, Germany.")

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