Abraham Breski testimony

Identifier
irn523833
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.411.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

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

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.