"Escape from Treblinka"

Identifier
irn517570
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.485
Dates
1 Jan 1993 - 31 Dec 1993
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517570

Extent and Medium

folder

1

1 videocassette,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Edward Weinstein donated his videocassette to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 26, 2005.

Scope and Content

Consists of one videocassette, approximately 10 minutes, entitled "Escape from Treblinka." The video relates the Holocaust experiences of Edward Weinstein, originally of Losice, Poland. Mr. Weinstein was deported to Treblinka in August 1942 and escaped on September 9, 1942. He spent the remainder of the war in hiding in the Polish countryside until the area was liberated in July 1944. The video uses photographs and home movies of a 1993 trip to Poland, to tell Mr. Weinstein's story.

Genre

  • Document
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