The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile

Identifier
irn501654
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0104
Dates
1 Jan 1997 - 31 Dec 1997
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Bruno Keith donated his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.

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.