"A Christmas Memoir"
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gabrielle Knox
Gabrielle Knox donated her mother's memoir and photographs of Mechelen to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 27, 2009.
Scope and Content
Consists of one document, 6 pages, entitled "A Christmas Memoir," by Anne L. Knox, which describes her memories of life in a German concentration camp in Belgium (possibly Mecheln/Mechelen) in the winter of 1943. In the testimony, she describes the strange celebration of Christmas in the camp. Also includes eight photographs of Mechelen taken in 1990 on the site of the memorial at the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (located at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen).
Genre
- Document
- Personal Narratives.
- Photographs.
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