Moyshe Rekhtman memoir

Identifier
irn501801
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0305
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501801

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The Registry of Holocaust Survivors transferred the memoir to the Archives in Sept. 1997 with no information on date received or address of source. A Moyshe Rekhtman. 3161 Brighton 6th St.,Brooklyn, NY 11235-7279 was found on the CD ROM disk; a Deed of Gift and letter were sent to him October 3, 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains a handwritten memoir describing the author's life in a labor camp near Letichev, Ukraine cutting trees and building bridges and roads; his escape from the labor camp on November 25,1942 to the Luchinets, Ukraine ghetto; his transfer in May 1943 to Tulchin labor camp; and his escape from that labor camp and return to Luchinets three months later where he hid in a Ukrainian family's house until the end of the occupation in March 1944. After the war, he remained in Ukraine until March 29, 1985 when he emigrated to the United States.

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.