Marcel Rowen collection

Identifier
irn502535
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0427.1
Dates
1 Jan 1990 - 31 Dec 1992
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502535

Extent and Medium

folder

1

1 sound recording,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Memoir transferred from Library to the Archives in August 1994. Donor sent cassette to Oral History Department in 1992 which transferred it to the Archives; date of transfer is unknown. Archives Donor Agreements for both items signed Apr. 24, 1995.

Scope and Content

Contains memoir, copyrighted 1990, entitled "The Gates of Heaven," detailing the experiences of Marcel Rowen (formerly named Marzel Rauchwerk) in prewar Leipzig (Germany); after his expulsion, along with his father and grandfather, to Poland in October 1938 because they held Polish passports; in Tarnów (Poland) before the German occupation and later in the Tarnów ghetto; in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps; in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp after liberation by the Americans; and after his emigration to the United States; and a cassette recording of a 12-minute presentation he gave on the Holocaust at his synagogue in 1992.

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.