"My Sisters, My Brothers"

Identifier
irn501059
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0984
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501059

Extent and Medium

folders

4

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The memoir was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Louise Loots Thornton in 1995.

Scope and Content

Testimony, 444 pages, typescript, titled "My Sisters, My Brothers," by Seren Bernstein (Tuvel), with Louise Loots Thornton, of Aptos, CA, in 1980. Thornton, after learning of Bernstein's experiences through her son, started interviewing her and wrote this manuscript as a novelized form of memoir based on those interviews. Includes detailed descriptions of Bernstein's childhood in a village in Transylvania, forced labor in Budapest, death march, and deportation to Ravensbrück. The manuscript was subsequently published as "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival," by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (Putnam: 1997).

People

  • Bernstein, Sarah (Seren Turel)

Corporate Bodies

Genre

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