Victor Gans memoir

Identifier
irn503786
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0064
  • RG-02.092
Dates
1 Jan 1976 - 31 Dec 1976
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503786

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Victor Gans

Biographical History

Victor Gans was born in Austria. During the Holocaust, he experienced Kristallnacht, was incarcerated, sent to Dachau and later released, and eventually immigrated to Shanghai. He later immigrated to the United States and settled in California.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The untitled memoir was written by Victor Gans in Feb. 1939 in Shanghai, and then translated into English in 1976 by an unknown translator (the signature of the translator at the end of the memoir is unclear). Victor Gans gave a copy of the translated manuscript to USHMMA in Apr. 1993.

Scope and Content

Contains information about the life of Victor Gans and his family before and after the Anschluss including their experiences of antisemitism; Kristallnacht in 1938, Victor's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau, and the eventual immigration of the family to Shanghai.

People

  • Gans, Victor.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Shanghai (China)
  • Shanghai--Emigration and immigration.
  • Jews, Austrian.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
  • Austria--History--1938-1945.

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.