us-005578-irn36478
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn36478/acquisitions/1
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/701
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/686
type: RecordSet
has or had holder: us-005578
scope and content: Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled"My Story" by Helen Lewi (later Helen Martel), originally of Sosnowiec, Poland. In the memoir, she describes her childhood, the invasion of Poland, the 1942 deportations, life in the ghetto, her deportation (without her family) to a labor camp in Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf in 1943, deportation to an unknown concentration camp in 1944, and deportation to the Gablonz concentration camp in 1945. She was liberated there by the Red Army; she returned to Sosnowiec and discovered that almost her entire family had perished, except for her brother and a cousin. Also includes copies of group photographs taken immediately after the war and a copy of a photograph of Helen Martel in Paris in 1947-1948 with her infant daughter, Madeleine.
has or had some members with language: eng
title: Helen Lewi Martel collection
has record set type: Item
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn36478
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-01-01
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn36478/alternateIDs/1
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-12-31
record resource extent: folder 1