Mojzesz (Mietek) Pachter memoir

Identifier
irn50758
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.96.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shabtai Pachter

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Mr. Shabtai Pachter

Scope and Content

Memoir, typescript, 732 pages, written in 1945-1947 by Mojżesz "Mietek" Pachter (donor’s paternal uncle) during his recuperation in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. In the memoir, Mietek described the Pachter family life in the Warsaw ghetto; forced labor by his older brother Wilek Wolf and himself and smuggling of food for the parents: Pinchas and Rywka and their youngest brother Sewek Jeshayahu. The parents and Sewek were deported to Treblinka in January 1943; Wilek and Mietek survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and in May 1943 they were deported to Treblinka, from there to Majdanek and in August 1943 they were transferred to Skarzysko Kamienna and Hasag in Czestochowa.

Genre

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