Narrative and diary of Mr. Gabriel Mermall
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Gabriel Mermall
Biographical History
Gabriel Mermall is a native of Bistra, Czechoslovakia, and a survivor of the Holocaust.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The copy of the Mermall diary was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on 14 Aug. 1986 by Dr. Max Rothchild.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of a survivor testimony written by Gabriel Mermall in diary form. The diary recounts the experiences of Mermall and his son, Tommy, during six months of hiding in a forest near the Carpathian Mountains. The diary also contains information about Christians who aided Mermall and his son, activity of partisans in Hungary, and the advance of the Soviet Army at the end of World War II. Portions of the testimony are written in narrative form and are intermingled with the diary entries.
System of Arrangement
Diary entries are in chronological order
People
- Gartner.
- Mermall, Gabriel.
- Mermall, Tommy.
- Mermall, Regina.
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Subjects
- Hiding places.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Poroshkov (Ukraine)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Ruthenia.
Genre
- Document
- Diaries.