Marion Weinzweig memoir

Identifier
irn501812
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0302
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501812

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Marion Weinzweig

Mrs. Weinzweig sent her memoir to the Registry of Holocaust Survivors; the date received is unknown. The Registry transferred it to the Archives in Sept. 1997.

Scope and Content

Consists of a memoir, 11 pages, of Marion Weinzweig (born Mania Sztajman) based on memory, painstaking research and an aunt’s recollection, describing family life in Opatów, Poland; her life as a hidden child first with a Polish family and later in Convents where she became a devout Catholic and an anti-semite; the deaths of her mother and many family members who were either shot by Germans, sent to Belzac, Auschwitz and Treblinka Death camp; postwar life as a Jewish child with her father in Poland, DP camp in Germany; Her immigration to Canada in 1948; and the Americanization of her name to Marion Staiman.

Subjects

  • Opatów (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.

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