Memoir entitled "I Never Left Janowska"

Identifier
irn500860
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0561
Dates
1 Jan 1987 - 31 Dec 1987
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Christine Kaplan donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.

Scope and Content

Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, where she worked as a forced laborer. After the war, she married and emigrated to the United States with her husband.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Christine Kaplan

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.