"J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Roger Langsdorf donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 8, 2006. Senta Victorovich is Mr. Langsdorf's former wife's cousin.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim", by Senta Luzie Manesse Victorovich, originally of Talheim, Germany. Orphaned as a child, Senta was deported with her sister and grandmother to the Gurs concentration camp in 1940. She and her sister managed to escape the camp and were hidden for a time before Senta joined a group of Austrian Communist resisters in Lyon, France, with whom she worked until the end of the war. The collection includes a full translation of the memoir into English by Roger Langsdorf.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document