Marketa Farnik memoir

Identifier
irn504320
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0313
  • RG-02.171
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504320

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Marketa Farnik

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

In1994, Marketa Farnik donated memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scope and Content

Describes Marketa Farnik's life in Czechoslovakia; her internment in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen; Marketa's liberation; the fates of family members; the reunion with her mother; her emigration to Israel in 1949; and her feelings about the Holocaust and its participants.

People

  • Farnik, Marketa.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jews, Czech--Poland.
  • Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.