A memoir

Identifier

irn500805

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1995.A.0703

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500805

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Mr. Fred Morgenstern

Scope and Content

Testimony, 3 pages, handwritten, about experiences in Brno, Czechoslovakia, escape to Poland after annexation, and then Soviet Union after start of war, at which point Soviets deported him and brother to Gulag camps (Kolyma, Magadan) until Germans invade SU, then are released and fight alongside Red Army in a Czech battalion.

Genre

Document
Personal Narratives.

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