Halina D. Gartenberg memoir

Identifier
irn501799
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0405
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1954
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501799

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Halina Diller Gartenberg sent her memoir to the Registry of Holocaust Survivors in Oct. 1994. The Registry transferred it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Sept. 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains donor's handwritten memoir in which she describes pre-World War II life in Lʹviv, Ukraine, (a.k.a. Lʹvov or Lwów, Poland); conditions in the Lʹviv ghetto; the deaths of her parents and brother in Janowska concentration camp; her survival in hiding first with a Catholic family and later with relatives; her postwar return to Poland; and her emigration to England in 1946 and to the United States in 1954.

Subjects

  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)

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.

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