"Strangers in the Heartland"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Donald M. Douglas donated his essay, “Strangers in the Heartland,” to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 1994.
Scope and Content
Donald M. Douglas wrote the essay, "Strangers in the Heartland" in January 1989. The essay consists of three parts, accounts of those who escaped from Europe, of those who survived in Polish forests, and of one man who survived Auschwitz. The narratives include such subjects as: emigrating to the United States, Kristallnacht, resistance movements and partisans, male rape, and the conditions inside concentration camps.
System of Arrangement
"Strangers in the Heartland" is arranged in a single series.
People
- Novick, Bernard.
- Semberger, Emily.
- Stras, Walter, 1924-1995.
- Freeman, Zina Novick.
- Kasmar, Elizabeth.
- Kasmar, Bernard.
- Oswald, Lotte.
- Douglas, Donald M.
- Reif, Eva.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Male rape.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Austria.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Essay.