For material on the Benario family see Document Collection number 915.
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The (apparent) author, Heilbrunner, was the brother-in-law of Erich Ganz, another inmate and the relative of Rudolph Benario who was murdered by 2 camp officers.
The provenance of the manuscript is unknown.
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Typescript memoir of life in Dachau by a Jewish inmate, Heilbrunner, in 1933. Written in the form of a narrative in the first person and structured into four chapters, it describes in some detail the conditions in the camp and the brutality of the camp guards. It contains manuscript annotations and corrections. German Typescript 54 pages
Heilbrunner: Eyewitness account of life in Dachau