"The Crossing"

Identifier
irn518630
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.27
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518630

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Mr. Arturo Vivante, with the assistance of Brewster Chamberlain and Benton Arnovitz, donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Dec. 28, 2006 . Mrs. Kinzer granted the rights of the memoir to Mr. Vivante to find a publisher or a home for the work. Mrs. Kinzer passed away on May 7, 2006.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "The Crossing," by Ilona Ricardo Kinzer, originally of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Ilona was staying with relatives in the coastal town of Ymuiden. After the Dutch surrender, Ilona helped her uncle and the other employees of the Blast Furnace plant blow up the complex rather than let it fall into Nazi control. She describes her spontaneous decision to escape to England with a one-legged Englishman, Mr. Judd, across the English channel in a rowboat with only a small motor, and her memories of that trip.

Genre

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