My experiences and survival in Nazi death camps

Identifier
irn501790
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0303
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501790

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Tibor Eliahu Beerman sent his memoir to the Registry of Holocaust Survivors in 1996. The Registry transferred the memoir to the Archives in Sept. 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains a typewritten memoir, 12 pages, describing his life in Beregovo, Czechoslovakia (a.k.a.Beregszasz, Hungary), before and during the German occupation; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp; his transfer to Babitz concentration camp where he worked as an agricultural slave laborer; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp where he worked digging ditches and moving stones; selections by Josef Mengele; a death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in January 1945; his transfer to Ebensee concentration camp where he worked in tunnels being dug into the mountains; beatings by SS guards; his postwar life in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany; his and his parents' emigration to the United States in 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.