A memoir

Identifier
irn500988
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0909
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500988

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Miriam Alexander

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Miriam Alexander

Scope and Content

Testimony, 7 pages, photocopy of typescript in German, along with English summary, relating to experiences of Martin Starke during war. Starke's own account was written in 1947. Describes Starke's arrest in Hamburg, imprisonment at Fuhlsbuettel, deportation to Auschwitz, time there as forced laborer, death march to Gleiwitz, then train to Mauthausen and other locations before end of war.

People

  • Schmelzer, Freda.

Genre

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