"Memories of an Interrupted Youth" : Rachel Friedensohn memoir

Identifier
irn517895
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.17
Dates
1 Jan 2005 - 31 Dec 2005
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517895

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Rachel Friedensohn donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 26, 2005.

Scope and Content

Contains one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Memories of an Interrupted Youth," by Rachel Feitsma Friedensohn, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. Her family escaped to France before the German invasion, lived in Toulouse and Boulogne-sur-Gesse before receiving their exit visas in November 1942. Rachel and her mother left for Madrid, where they were reunited with her father, who had been imprisoned in the Vernet concentration camp in France. The family spent the remainder of the war in Jamaica and Cuba.

Genre

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