Irving Schaffer manuscript

Identifier
irn43823
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.300.1
Dates
1 Jan 1986 - 31 Dec 1986
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43823

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Irving Schaffer

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Irving Schaffer

Irving Schaffer donated his notebooks to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July, 2011.

Scope and Content

Consists of three notebooks, handwritten by Irving Schaffer, circa March 1986, in which he wrote his memoir, which was published in 1991 as "Don't Give Up: Be Strong and We Will Meet Again." In the memoir, which is rough draft form, Mr. Schaffer describes his childhood in Kolochave, his deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944, his forced labor cleaning the site of the Warsaw ghetto, a forced march to Dachau and then sent to Landsberg. He was liberated by the American Army, describes life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, and his emigration to the United States in 1947.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Irving Schaffer

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives.

Genre

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