Before memories fade memoirs

Identifier
irn503783
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0058
  • RG-02.089
Dates
1 Jan 1989 - 31 Dec 1989
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503783

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

  • Pearl Fichman

Biographical History

Pearl Fichman (b. 1920, Cernăuți, Romania) is a Holocaust survivor

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Pearl Fichman wrote her memoir in 1989. She donated a copy of it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in July 1993.

Scope and Content

The memoir describes the experiences Pearl Fichman and her family's pre-war life in Romania prior to her immigration from Europe after World War II. It contains information about antisemitism in Romania, life in a ghetto, and the occupation of Romania by Russian soldiers.

People

  • Fichman, Pearl, 1920-

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors--Romania.
  • Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
  • Jews--Romania--Biography.
  • Antisemitism.
  • Romania--History--1914-1944.

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.