Flora Herzberger memoir
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Flora Herzberger
Biographical History
Flora Herzberger (Bügingen, Germany, 14 May 1899 - 28 Dec 1963, New York) was deported from Düsseldorf, Germany with her family to the Łódź ghetto in 1941. Her husband died in Łódź and she and her children were deported to Auschwitz, and then a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. After liberation she immigrated to the United States and settled in New York.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the memoir in Aug. 1994.
Scope and Content
The memoir describes Flora Herzberger and her family's deportation from Düsseldorf, Germany, to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; the death of her husband; conditions inside the ghetto; her and her children's transport to Auschwitz; her and her daughter's deportation to a forced labor camp; and their liberation.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews, German--Poland.
- Forced labor.
Genre
- Personal Narratives.
- Memoirs.
- Document