Victor Adler Some notes about my life, with Adler-Stöessler family genealogy and history
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Creator(s)
- Victor Adler
Biographical History
Victor Adler (Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic, 03 June 1919 - ) fled Nazi-occupied Europe before the outbreak of World War II. After he immigrated to the United States he settled in California. Both of his parents were deported to Theresienstadt and then Auschwitz where they perished.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Victor Adler
In May 1992, Sally Gagne transcribed and edited a 1989 oral history Adler had done of himself. In Nov. 1994, Adler gave the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum a copy of a memoir based upon the interview.
Scope and Content
"Some notes about my life" describes the experiences of Victor Adler and members of his family after the German occupation of the Sudetenland; in particular, it relates how Adler escaped Czechoslovakia; fled to Hungary and then to Palestine; enlisted in the Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade under British command; fought in the European theater during World War II; and emigrated to and rebuilt his life in the United States; Adler's parents were sent to Terezin and subsequently transported to and killed at Auschwitz; and how Adler's brother and cousins escaped Czechoslovakia and served in the Allied forces.
People
- Stöessler family.
- Adler, Victor.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Uherské Hradiště (Czech Republic)
- Soldiers' writings.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Men authors.
- Escapes.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.