Mary Schnell collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Mary Schnell.
Scope and Content
Contains a testimony, typescript, 8 pages, titled "Stutthof 1944--Mary Schnell," about the donor's experiences in occupied Poland (Gdynia), who converted to become Jehovah's Witness in 1943, and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned at Stutthof, where she was repeatedly interrogated and urged to abandon faith, and then sent to general part of camp, evacuation by barge in 1945, and after abandonment by guards continued sailing to Denmark.
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