Karl Schneider memoir
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Doris Doctor donated her father's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 14, 2005.
Scope and Content
Consists of two copies of Karl Schneider's memoir of life in the Riga ghetto. He was a member of a transport from Cologne, Germany, which arrived in Riga in December 1941. He remained in the ghetto for the majority of the war, and discusses the establishment of schools and religious practices within the ghetto.
Subjects
- Riga (Latvia).
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.