A survivor's story Simon Sterling
Extent and Medium
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2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Phyllis Sterling Jacobs donated a copy of her father's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
The memoir describes Simon Sterling and his wife's experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland; the Brody ghetto; his separation from his wife, Sophie, and his deportation to a concentration camp; his escape; Simon and Sophie's reunion; hiding in a forest; Simon's bout with typhus; their liberation by the Soviet military; Simon's work in a brewery; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation in Germany; the displaced persons camp at Föhrenwald, Germany; and their immigration to the United States.
People
- Sterling, Simon.
Subjects
- Jews--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Men authors.
- Concentration camps.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Brody.
- Jews--Cultural assimilation--United States.
- Föhrenwald (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Hiding places.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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