Tziporah Hager Weiss Halivni papers

Identifier
irn73616
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.529.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

boxes

22

Creator(s)

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Baruch Weiss

Weiss, Baruch. Gift, 2013.

Scope and Content

Manuscript segments, notes, copied research materials, and other documents related to historic research done by Tziporah Hager Weiss Halivni, pertaining to the Sonderkommando uprising at Auschwitz, as well as her own experiences at Auschwitz and other camps during the Holocaust. Included is an extensive collection of mimeographed documents supplied by Bureau 6, Police of Israel, of evidence and transcripts from the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel, 1961-1962, as well as notes, text fragments, and typescript drafts of Halivni's writings about the Sonderkommando uprising.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in two series: I. Eichmann trial materials, II. Sonderkommando uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau, writing and research.

People

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Genre

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