Personal history

Identifier
irn501077
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1114
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501077

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Lilly Aron Weiss in 1995.

Scope and Content

Consists of a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, written by Lilly Aron Weiss, originally of Balassagyarmat, Hungary. In the memoir, she describes her experiences in Hungary in 1944, her deportation to Auschwitz, being separated from her family, and life in Auschwitz. In the fall of 1944, she was transferred to the Ashesleben airplane factory and from there, to Theresienstadt, where she was liberated.

People

  • Weiss, Lilly Aron.

Genre

  • Memoirs.
  • Document
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