Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer memoir

Identifier
irn501619
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0108
Dates
1 Jan 1988 - 31 Dec 1988
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Julia Firestone

Scope and Content

Consists of one bound memoir, 59 pages, entitled "Paula" by Paula Scwamenau Eisenhammer, originally of Sniatyn. In the memoir, she describes growing up with family in Sniatyn and Kolomyja, life in the Kolomyja ghetto, a failed attempt to escape to Romania, and escaping from a moving deportation train outside of Majdanek. She returned to Kolomyja and obtained Aryan papers. In the fall of 1942, she traveled to Germany as a forced laborer, hiding her Jewish identity. She was liberated in 1945 and was able to emigrate to the United States in January 1947.

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.