Von Prag nach Mauritius Dezember 1939 bis Dezember 1941
Extent and Medium
folders
2
7 caricatures,
Creator(s)
- Aharon Zwergbaum
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
Acquired, March 2012.
Scope and Content
One typescript memoir, with five unattributed woodcuts, documenting the author's experiences as a would-be emigrant from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in 1940. The ship he was traveling on, the Atlantic, was seized by British authorities and the author and other passengers were interned on the island of Mauritius until 1945. The memoir, written in 1941-1942, documents this experience. Also included is a separate, handmade booklet containing seven pen-and-ink drawings of shipboard life and internment, by Fritz Haendel and another unidentified artist.
People
- Aharon Zwergbaum
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Mauritius.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Mauritius.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Genre
- Art.
- Document
- Personal narratives.