Yolanda Friedmann Gold Holocaust memoirs

Identifier
irn501802
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0309
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501802

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Yolanda Friedmann Gold sent her memoirs to the Registry of Holocaust Survivors, which transferred the memoirs to the Archives in Sept. 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains of a copy of a typewritten memoir, two pages, written by Yolanda Friedmann Gold, originally of Jibou, Transylvania. The memoir describes life in the gehtto in Simleul-Silvania, then in Goldfill, Estonia. In Estonia, she was forced to work in a pine forest and then was briefly sent to Danzig and Stutthof before being sent to a munitions factory near Hamburg. She was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, and returned to Transylvania until 1964. Also includes a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, in Hungarian, about her family's Holocaust experiences.

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.