Memoirs (1940-1980)
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the memoir, translated by Kristina Wise, in July 1994.
Scope and Content
Written in 1980, the text describes how Maria Epstein lived in Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine), during the Soviet occupation; was an inhabitant with her husband in the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus; gave birth to and cared for an infant daughter; was liberated from the Germans; escaped from the Soviet Union and fled to Poland; and emigrated with her family to Canada in 1968.
People
- Epstein, Maria.
Subjects
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Document
- Personal Narratives.