Cesia Frymer diary

Identifier
irn73148
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.408.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73148

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Arnon Karnieli

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.

Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Arnon Karnieli.

Scope and Content

Diary written by Cesia Frymer after she reached her hometown of Krakow, Poland, after liberation from Lichtenwerde. Frymer began the diary in Krakow in January 1945, and compiled entries there and elsewhere in Poland and Czechoslovakia until May 1947. Frymer survived the Krakow Ghetto, Płaszów, and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. She participated in an attack on the Cyganeria Cafe in December 1942 in Krakow. She was a member of Hashomer Hatzair.

Genre

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