Blanka Kronenberg memoirs

Identifier
irn515797
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.543
Dates
1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2004
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515797

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Blanka Kronenberg donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Sept. 2004.

Scope and Content

Consists of two memoirs, each 2 pages, by Blanka Kronenberg, originally of Poland. In the first, she describes her memories of working in a woodworking factory run by the Germans, of the transport of Jews to the ghetto, and of a death march from Auschwitz in 1945. In the second, entitled "The Evacuation of the Jews of Wierzbwik-Starachowice," she describes the establishment of the Wierzbwik-Starachowice ghetto, life in the ghetto, and the 1942 selection and deportation of its' residents.

Genre

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