Lila Cohn Chudy memoir
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Lila Cohn Chudy sent her letter to the Registry of Holocaust Survivors in October 1994. It was transferred to the Archives in November 1997.
Scope and Content
Consists of a handwritten memoir in the form of a three-page letter to the Museum, dated October 9, 1994, from Lila Cohn Chudy (born Lieselotte Cohn), originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Berlin, her deportation to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, and her postwar emigration with her husband, Herszel, to the United States. She includes a list of family members.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document