Tunia Kogan memoir

Identifier
irn519683
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0313
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519683

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Tunia Kogan

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this memoir from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch on July 2, 1998. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received it from Tunia Kogan.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, handwritten in English, by Tunia Kogan, originally of Ozorkow, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her life and family in Ozorkow, the selection in the town square, life in the ghetto, and her deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944. In December 1944, she was sent to Dresden. After the bombings in Dresden, she was sent on a forced march for two months, until she was able to escape with her sister near Karlsbad and Marienbad. She lived in a displaced persons camp for five years before emigrating to the United States.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Dresden (Germany)
  • Ozorków (Poland)

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.