A void in my heart the memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, (1927- )

Identifier
irn504250
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0237
  • RG-02.152
Dates
1 Jan 1989 - 31 Dec 1989
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504250

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Regina Godinger Hoffman donated a copy of her memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in1993.

Scope and Content

The memoir describes Regina Hoffman's (b. 1927) deportation from Czechoslovakia to Poland, the deaths of family members, her psychological trauma, internment in the ghetto in Khust, Ukraine, life in Auschwitz and her transfer to camps in Nuremberg, Germany, and Holešov (Holeshovitz), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), liberation, and immigration to the United States in 1948.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Czech Republic--Holešov.
  • Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.
  • Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Khust.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Nuremberg.
  • Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Khust.
  • Jews, Czech--Poland.
  • Khust (Ukraine)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
  • Jews--Czechoslovakia.

Genre

  • Document
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