Dov Katz: chapters in his life during the years of the second world war 1939-1946

Identifier
irn500048
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.84
Dates
1 Jan 1999 - 31 Dec 1999
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500048

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this memoir from Edith Katz, the widow of Dov Katz on Nov. 2, 1999.

Scope and Content

Contains a memoir, 15 pages, about Dov Katz's childhood years in Złoczow, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), his survival on false papers purchased by his father, work in a leather and iron processing plants while surviving on false papers, life in Bucharest, Romania, and later emigration to Palestine.

People

  • Katz, Dov.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel.
  • Zolochiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)

Genre

  • Memoirs.
  • Document
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