This paper is the memoir of a Polish-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, annotated with historical references and an introduction written by the narrator's daughter. It is based on the narrator's taped recollections, as told to and edited by her daughter. The narrator was born and raised in Siedlce, Poland, a city located fifty miles east of Warsaw. She describes life in Siedlce before World War II and then recounts the events that took place in Siedlce following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. The narrator and her husband were among the few Jews to survive the liquidation of the community. Fearing denunciation, they assumed false identities and went to Germany to work. She recounts their experiences working in a factory in Kassel and on a farm near Wtirzburg. The memoir depicts their liberation and their life as displaced persons in the American zone of Germany, concluding with their emigration to the United States in 1949 / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_24761 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Contributors | Herman, Helen Yomtov (Author), Powell, Lawrence (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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