"Dina's Story"

Identifier
irn500835
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0588
Dates
1 Jan 1994 - 31 Dec 1994
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500835

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Dina Littman donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 1995.

Scope and Content

Contains one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Dina's Story," written in 1994 by Dina Littman, originally of Zgierz, Poland. In the memoir, she describes the confiscation of goods, life in the Łódź ghetto, forced labor in Shwachsztrom. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz and from there, to Bergen-Belsen and to forced labor in Salzwedel, where she was liberated. She briefly returned to Łódź, married a fellow survivor, Jakob Littman, and tried to emigrate to Israel. After a brief internment in Cyprus, she emigrated to Israel and eventually to the United States.

Genre

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