My memoirs

Identifier

irn500514

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1995.A.0083

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500514

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Bertha F. Zimmer

Scope and Content

Testimony. Typescript, about 75 pages, with index and copied documents, titled "My Memoir," by Bertha Frank Zimmer, dated 1985. Recounts her experiences in Cologne, Germany; her engagement to her husband (postponed after he was arrested following Kristallnacht); escape to Holland; internment at Westerbork after German occupation; and deportation to Theresienstadt.

Genre

Document
Personal Narratives.

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