"The Yellow Armband"
Extent and Medium
folders
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Sol Feuer donated his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Mar. 10, 2005. The Yiddish copy of the memoir and the photographs were donated on July 11, 2005.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, titled "The Yellow Armband," by Zalmen Feuerwerker (now Sol Feuer), originally of Sighet, Romania. Mr. Feuer describes his experiences in a labor battalion, his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp, his experiences repairing railway tracks as part of a labor battalion which survived frequent Allied bombings, and his liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Feuer concentrates on the story of his four closest friends, Zoli (a soccer player), Rozi (a religious scholar), Mendl (a holy man), and Doc (Dr. Friedman). Only Mr. Feuer (Freiu) and Rozi survived the war. Includes copies of memoir in English and in Yiddish, as well as photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Photographs.
- Document