The undying spark from generation to generation

Identifier
irn504126
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0182
  • RG-02.113
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504126

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

In Oct. 1991 Auerbach gave his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library. In July 1994 it was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.

Scope and Content

The memoir describes the Jewish community of Shershev, Ukraine; how the author and his family were deported to the Pruzhany ghetto and from there to the concentration camp of Auschwitz; and Auerbach's emigration to the United States and his assimilation into American culture.

People

  • Auerbach, Jacob.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Jews--Soviet Union.
  • Jews--Social life and customs.
  • Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Pruzhany.
  • Shershev (Ukraine)
  • Autobiographies.
  • Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Genre

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