Geza Kornis memoir

Identifier

irn514336

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2003.384

Dates

1 Jan 2003 - 31 Dec 2003

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514336

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Kati Morgenstern donated her father's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 26, 2003.

Scope and Content

The 11-page memoir relates Geza Kornis' experiences in the Romanian work camp "Wapniarka," and in the ghetto in Olgopol, Ukraine. Mr. Kornis was a communist and includes information about the power of the (communist) inmate leadership within the camp and describes a hunger strike undertaken by the inmates.

Corporate Bodies

Vapniarka (Concentration camp)

Genre

Personal narratives.
Document

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