Doris Perlhefter Rauch memoir

Identifier
irn500813
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0620
Dates
1 Jan 1995 - 31 Dec 1995
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Doris Rauch donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.

Scope and Content

Contains of one notarized typed memoir, in German, 3 pages, written by Doris Perlhefter Rauch, originally of Bruenn, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes her deportation to Theresienstadt in 1941 and from there, to Raasiku, Estonia, in 1942, where her mother was immediately shot and Doris was assigned forced labor doing farm work. In January 1943, she was sent to Tallin for forced labor at the Reval shipyard, where she worked until the summer of 1944, when she was taken by boat to Stutthof and after a few months, to Hamburg. In the final days of the war, she was sent to Bergen-Belsen and after liberation, went to Sweden as part of a Red Cross transport.

Genre

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