"My Life-Story": Ruth Marks memoir

Identifier
irn515170
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.242
Dates
1 Jan 2003 - 31 Dec 2003
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515170

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Gideon Marks donated his mother's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 25, 2003.

Scope and Content

Consists of memoir, 66 pages, entitled "My Life-Story," by Ruth Marks (Roma Glowinski). Originally from Kalisz, Poland, Ruth spent the war in hiding as Vislava (Viesha) Serafinska in Pruszków, Poland. Her parents and sister were deported from the Sandomierz ghetto in 1942 and perished in Belzec. Ruth Marks emigrated to Israel in 1947.

Genre

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