Alwin Steinitz writings
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Alwin Steinitz
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Israel
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
David Israel donated these articles to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2011. He received these articles while writing his book, "The Day the Thunderbird Cried" which includes additional information about Mr. Steinitz.
Scope and Content
The Alwin Steinitz writings consists of four articles, in English, typed with handwritten corrections, by Alwin Steinitz, a former Swiss journalist and survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The articles, written between 1945-1947, detail Mr. Steinitz's personal experiences and memories of his imprisonment as an anti-Nazi journalist, of life in Buchenwald, of liberation, and of post-war Germany.
System of Arrangement
The Alwin Steinitz writings is arranged in a single series.
People
- Steinitz, Alwin.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Buchenwald--Sources.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document