The unshed tears
Extent and Medium
folders
9
Creator(s)
- Edith Birkin
Biographical History
Edith Birkin was born in Prague in 1927. In 1941, she was sent with her parents to the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. In 1944, she was sent to Auschwitz and then to Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. In Jan. 1945, she was sent on a death march to Flossenbürg. After spending a short time there, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen, where she was at the time of its liberation. After the Holocaust, she joined a sister and immigrated to England
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
"The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England. In 1993, the manuscript came to the attention of the USHRIA after United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired material from Holocaust Publications, a private publishing house that had acquired the manuscript. Birkin donated the manuscript to the Archives Department in July 1993.
Scope and Content
Although written as fiction, many of the details in "The unshed tears" are based on the experiences of Edith Hofman Birkin and her family during the Holocaust. It describes how the main character, Judith Baron, was deported from Prague to the Łódź ghetto and later to Monowitz; forced to work in Kristianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; and later participated in a death march. The manuscript also details her liberation and her attempts to return to a normal life. "The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Birkin, Edith.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Deportation.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
Genre
- Document