Marion Weinzweig memoir
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Marion Weinzweig
Mrs. Weinzweig sent her memoir to the Registry of Holocaust Survivors; the date received is unknown. The Registry transferred it to the Archives in Sept. 1997.
Scope and Content
Consists of a memoir, 11 pages, of Marion Weinzweig (born Mania Sztajman) based on memory, painstaking research and an aunt’s recollection, describing family life in Opatów, Poland; her life as a hidden child first with a Polish family and later in Convents where she became a devout Catholic and an anti-semite; the deaths of her mother and many family members who were either shot by Germans, sent to Belzac, Auschwitz and Treblinka Death camp; postwar life as a Jewish child with her father in Poland, DP camp in Germany; Her immigration to Canada in 1948; and the Americanization of her name to Marion Staiman.
Subjects
- Opatów (Poland)
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document