"We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child"
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marlies Wolf Plotnik
Marlies Plotnik donated her memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on August 23, 2010.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 81 pages with appendices, entitled "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child" by Marlies Wolf Plotnik, written in 2005. In the memoir, Mrs. Plotnik describes her childhood in Darmstadt, Germany, her memories of Kristallnacht, her family history, her family's immigration to the United States through England in 1939,and her life in the United States. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Marlies Plotnik
People
- Plotnik, Marlies.
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Darmstadt.
- Darmstadt (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Personal Narratives.