"Memoirs of Violet Dattner"

Identifier
irn500894
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0718
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Violet Dattner donated her memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.

Scope and Content

Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to Havana, Cuba. She also describes her experiences trying to help other family emigrate and in the post-war years, to obtain restitution and information regarding family who perished, as well as her experiences attending the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.

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.