The beginning of Sam Stammer's life as written by him in German
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Samuel Stammer
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Terri Israeli donated the memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
Describes Samuel Stammer’s (Dornfeld, Austria, 05 Jul 1905 - ) childhood in Austria and life in the Free City of Gdansk (Danzig); his experiences as a Polish soldier during the German invasion and as a prisoner-of-war; his transport to and experiences in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos (including: Majdanek, the Lowicz ghetto, the Warsaw ghetto, the Miedzyrzec ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Schlier Redl-Zipf, and Ebensee); the death of family members at Treblinka; his work counterfeiting American and British money for the Nazis; his liberation and being a displaced person in Gmunden, Austria; and his immigration to the United States in 1950.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Samuel Stammer
People
- Stammer, Samuel.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Gmunden (Austria)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Lowicz.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Counterfeit money.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Miedzyrzec Podlaski.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Prisoners of war.
Genre
- Document