Marianne Hood: Memories of the war years in Holland

Identifier
WL1061
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 70194
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Jan 1945
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Archival History

This document appears to have been deposited at the Wiener Library some 5 years before it was formerly accessioned. The relationship between the depositor and the subject of the memoir is not known. Nothing further is known of her life either before or after the events described in this memoir.

Acquisition

Hood, Marianne: Erinnerungen aus den Kriegsjahren der dt. Besatzung in Holland m/s

Donated June 1990

Donor: Dr. Werner Rosenstock

Scope and Content

Copy typescript autobiographical account of how a German Jewish woman spent her teenage and early adult years in Amsterdam concealing her Jewish identity.

Originally from Berlin, she last saw her mother when she was put on the train to Amsterdam in 1938. She describes how she assumed a new identity, spent much of her time learning and practising the piano and how she would listen to English radio programmes and read foreign newspapers to keep abreast of events.
German 9 pages 

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Open

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