Highlights and documentation of the Holocaust: an eyewitness account

Identifier
irn503101
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0001
  • RG-02.041
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Hungarian
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Sydney (Zoltan) Schwimmer was born in 1915 in Dohla, a town in a Carpatho-Ukraine area that was then part of Czechoslovakia. He attended the medical university in Brünn, Czechoslovakia (now Brno, Czech Republic) from 1936 to 1939. Schwimmer was drafted for the forced Jewish labor camps run by the Hungarians who had annexed part of Czechoslovakia. He participated in a two-week death march and was liberated at Bergen-Belsen. Schwimmer immigrated to the United States in 1948.

Archival History

Sydney Schwimmer

Acquisition

"Highlights and Documentation .." was written by Sydney Schwimmer and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Jul. 1991.

Scope and Content

Consists of a copy of the manuscript for "Highlights and Documentation of the Holocaust: An Eyewitness Account by Sydney Schwimmer." The manuscript includes Schwimmer's definition of a Holocaust survivor and outline for his personal Holocaust research, copies of documents obtained by Schwimmer during the Holocaust, an autobiography, information concerning the Jews of the Carpatho-Ukraine area in Czechoslovakia (also known as Ruthenia), and his description of the Wolfsberg concentration camp.

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