"The Life of Irene Berger"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Irene Berger Glassberg donated her story to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2005.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "The Life of Irene Berger," by Irene Berger Glassberg, written in August 2004. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Łódź, Poland, her life in the Łódź ghetto, her deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and her experiences in the Auschwitz, Freiberg, and Mauthausen concentration camps. After her liberation from Mauthausen, she returned to Łódź, and then lived at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp before immigrating to New York in 1946. There, she obtained a nursing degree, became an American citizen, and started a family.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.