"Before the Storm": Alexander Cohen's autobiography

Identifier
irn518190
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.134
Dates
1 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2004
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518190

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Alexander Cohen donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr. 12, 2006 with the help of his nephew, Ted Doron.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 40 pages, entitled "Before the Storm," written in 2004 by Alexander Cohen, originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes the anti-Jewish measures in Budapest before 1944 and the chaos of life in Budapest in 1944. He describes his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battalion and the deaths of members of his family and those of his wife, Magda, whom he married after liberation.

Genre

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