Dora Apsan collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Dora A. Sorell
Biographical History
Dora grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz along with most of the town's 10,000 Jewish inhabitants. She survived the ordeal, but her parents, two of her brothers, and some 40 members of her extended family perished in the gas chambers. Dora returned to Sighet, married her high-school sweetheart, built a career, and raised a family before emigrating to the West to be with her surviving brothers.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dora Sorell
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The Dora Apsan collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dora Apsan Sorell.
Scope and Content
The diary was written by Dora Apsan immediately following her liberation from Weisswasser, an I.G. Farben forced labor factory. In the diary, Dora recounts her family's final days in the ghetto in Sighet (Sighetu Marmației), Romania; their deportation and arrival in Auschwitz; and her liberation.
People
- Sorell, Dora Apsan.
Corporate Bodies
- IG Farben (Firm)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
- Jewish ghettos--Romania--Sighetu Marmației.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Sighetu Marmației--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Document
- Diaries.