"My deportation"

Identifier
irn502874
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1984.066
  • 1995.A.0079
  • RG-02.005.01
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Bernard Nissenbaum (born Berysz Bernard Nissenbaum) was born on 18 July 1895 in Łódź, Poland. He worked as a diamond cutter before the war. He was arrested and deported from a village in southern France in 1942, and survived several concentration and labor camps including Pawiak, Drancy, Lyon-Venissieux, Majdanek, Trzebinia, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Dachau. He was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp by the U.S. Army. Bernard immigrated to the United States in 1947 aboard the SS Marine Tiger.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Ida Stern donated Bernard Nissenbaum's "My Deportation," to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 5, 1984. Ida is the daughter of Bernard Nissenbaum.

Scope and Content

The testimony describes Bernard Nissenbaum's deportation from France and his imprisonment in several concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other inmates, the division of various nationalities of prisoners in the Birkenau camp, the situation of the "Muselmänner" in various camps, the relationships between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the uprising. Bernard wrote the testimony around 1945-1946, primarily in German. His sister Gussie Weiner translated it into English around 1982.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single folder.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Ida Stern

People

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

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