Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991 Berlin, Rīga, Stutthof
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Charlotte Baum
Biographical History
In June 1941, the Nazis attacked Gorzd (Gargzdai), Lithuania, Baum's birthplace, and transported all of the Jewish women and children to Anelishke. During this time, Baum's family was trying to secure emigration papers. Instead of receiving visas for the United States, they received visas for Shanghai and had to report to the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Around July 1943, Jews in Rīga were being transported to Kaiserwald concentration camp. In 1944, with the Soviet Army advancing, the camp inmates were placed on a boat and sailed to Danzig (Gdansk), Poland, where they were placed in another camp. After the required work was finished, Baum and others were led on several death marches. In January 1945, after a five-day death march, Baum and others were liberated by the Soviet Army.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
In Jun. 1994, Charlotte's brother, Harry, gave the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum a copy of Charlotte's memoir.
Scope and Content
Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Charlotte Baum
People
- Arpadi, Charlotte.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Berlin (Germany)
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Rīga.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Death marches.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Document