Ruth Herz Goldschmidt memoir
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Ruth H. Goldschmidt
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The memoir was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Ruth Herz Goldschmidt in 1995.
Scope and Content
Testimony, typescript, two pages, circa 1990s. Describes childhood in a village in Hessen, increasing Nazi persecution, family's move to Mainz, author's journey to Belgium with other orphaned children, then to southern France after invasion of Belgium, and survival there thanks to the Red Cross.
People
- Goldschmidt, Ruth Herz.
- Ruth H. Goldschmidt
Subjects
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--France.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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