Bernard Robinson papers
Extent and Medium
boxes
oversize box
28
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Owen L. Robinson
Gift of Owen L. Robinson, 2016.
Scope and Content
The Bernard Robinson papers consist of correspondence, research files, testimonies, and photographs, which were created or collected by Robinson as source material for his research projects about women forced laborers during the Holocaust, who were forced onto death marches during the latter days of World War II. In particular, the papers document the experiences of women who participated in two marches, from Grünberg, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, to Helmbrechts, a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp from January to March, 1945, and a subsequent march from Helmbrechts toward Sudetenland, in April and May 1945. Robinson’s wife, Amalie, was one of the women who survived these marches, and in later years, in addition to the research on the prisoners and the Nazi perpetrators, the Robinsons also participated in reunions among the women, some of which are also documented in these papers.
People
- Robinson, Amalie Mary, 1923-.
Subjects
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Death march survivors.
- Helmbrechts (Concentration camp)
- Volary (Czech Republic)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Grünberg in Schlesien (Concentration camp)
- Death marches--Germany.
- Women concentration camp inmates--Germany.
Genre
- Research papers.
- Document