Handbook

Identifier
irn532723
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.498.10
  • 2017.535
  • 2018.567
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Archival History

The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Helen Albert, the great-niece of Bernard and Herman Jezower and the daughter of Oscar and Doba Dreszner Albert.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Albert

Scope and Content

This book, published in 1950 by Henry Holt and Company, was bought by Oscar Albert, the donor's father, in 1951. According to the donor, her father learned at age 15 to be a metal worker in five different concentration camps working for Heinkel and Messerschmitt building Luftwaffe planes for the Nazis. He came to the United States, used those skills learned in slave labor factories and levereged them to obtain positions in factories in America. He eventually rose to be an executive manager in a large national corporation engaged in manufacturing.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

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.