Nadia Gould collection
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Creator(s)
- Nadia Gould
Biographical History
Nadia Gould (née Balter, 1927- ) was born in Strasbourg, France and immigrated to the United States in 1943.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
In 1994 Nadia Gould donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Scope and Content
The memoir describes her parents' families; her childhood in the French countryside; the German occupation of France; her and her mother's escape to join her father in unoccupied France; her family's escape from Marseille, France, to Portugal via Spain; her immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and in college; and some of her experiences afterwards. The collection also includes picture postcards illustrated with Gould's art work depict both geometric and human forms.
People
- Gould, Nadia.
- Gould family.
Subjects
- Hiding places.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Art.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--France.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Portugal--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jewish children.
Genre
- Document
- Memoirs.