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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Szyja Herszkopf documents

    Consists of an identity card issued by the "Ausschuss ehemaliger Konzentrations-Häftlinge, Hannover," on October 3, 1945, with photograph, stating that Szia Herszkopf is a survivor of a concentration camp, and listing his tattooed prisoner number, as well as noting his food ration allocation. Also includes a processing identity card giving medical information issued by the I.R.O. issued to Szyja Herszkopf, dated August 1948, stamped at the IRO center in Fallingbostel.

  2. "Bergemolo: Before and Thereafter; The Way it Was"

    Consists of one memoir, 32 pages, entitled "Bergemolo: Before and Thereafter; The Way it Was" by Ernst Breuer. In the memoir, which begins in 1942, Mr. Breuer describes his work in the French and Italian undergrounds, his experiences in several French internment camps, and hiding with his sister and friends in Italy. He went to the United States as part of a group of refugees who were housed at Fort Ontario, and describes his post-war life.