Peter Mittler memoir

Identifier
irn38115
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.284
Dates
1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2009
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Mittler

Peter Mittler donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 19 Oct. 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of the first chapter, entitled "Childhood," of the memoir of Peter Mittler, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, 27 pages, Dr. Mittler describes his memories of the Anschluss. Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Vienna, and his experiences as an eight-year-old on a Kindertransport to England, leaving 11 January 1939. He reunited with his parents in England in the spring of 1939, and describes their efforts to become Anglicized. He also records biographical narratives of his parents, Gustav and Gertrude Mittler, and of other family members, some who passed away before World War II, some who perished in the Holocaust, and some who became refugees and survived the war.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Dr. Peter Mittler

Genre

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