Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld memoirs
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld
Biographical History
Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld was a native of Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), and a survivor of the Holocaust. He escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to Romania where he lived under the assumed identity of a non-Jewish man. He immigrated to Palestine at the end of World War II.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The article was written by Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld in May 1985 for his children. A copy of the article was sent to Marian Craig of the USHMC by Edward Berman, and in-law of Maltiel-Gerstenfeld, in Mar 1987. The copy was turned over to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives during the same month.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of an article written by Jacob Maltiel-Gerstenfeld concerning his family history and experiences during the Holocaust. The article includes detailed information on the dispersal of Maltiel-Gerstenfeld's relatives who eventually perished in the Lvov ghetto, his activities as a Zionist youth, his life in Romania under an assumed identity, and his emigration to Palestine at the end of World War II.
People
- Maltiel-Gerstenfeld, Jacob.
- Strassberg, Gina Helena.
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Organisation Todt (Germany)
Subjects
- Austria.
- Palestine.
- Genealogy.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
- False personation.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Dnipropetrovsʹk (Ukraine)
- Jewish way of life.
- Jewish-Arab relations.
- Hungary.
- Wimniczki (Poland)
- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
- Jews--Poland.
- Hiding places.
- Zionism--Romania.
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Refugees.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document