"J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim"

Identifier
irn517857
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.21
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517857

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Roger Langsdorf donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 8, 2006. Senta Victorovich is Mr. Langsdorf's former wife's cousin.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim", by Senta Luzie Manesse Victorovich, originally of Talheim, Germany. Orphaned as a child, Senta was deported with her sister and grandmother to the Gurs concentration camp in 1940. She and her sister managed to escape the camp and were hidden for a time before Senta joined a group of Austrian Communist resisters in Lyon, France, with whom she worked until the end of the war. The collection includes a full translation of the memoir into English by Roger Langsdorf.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.