Abraham Breski testimony
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of James and Laura Walesch
The account was originally written circa 1945-1950 in Europe and obtained by Forest Weiser, an American soldier stationed in Europe after World War II. The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by the estate of Forest and Arlene Weiser.
Scope and Content
Contains six pages of translation (pages 5 and 6 are both numbered 5) of first hand account of Abraham Breski, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The account documents Breski's experiences being deported from Pruzana, Poland to the Birkenau killing center in Poland in 1943.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document