Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution
Extent and Medium
1 , PDF
Creator(s)
- Alexander Silbiger
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alexander Silbiger
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2021 by Alexander Silbiger.
Scope and Content
PDF of an expanded version of Alexander Silbiger's memoir, Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution, 1942-1943 (2020), 73 pages. Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands, describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao. The original version of this memoir was previously accessioned as 2006.27
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Alexander Silbiger
People
- Silbiger, Alexander.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Spain.
- Jewish refugees--Jamaica.
- France.
- Hague (Netherlands)
- Curaçao.
- Jamaica.
- Jewish refugees--Curaçao.
- Jews--Netherlands--Hague.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.