us-005578-irn500894
title: "Memoirs of Violet Dattne"
record resource extent: folder 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/686
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identifier: irn500894
scope and content: Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to Havana, Cuba. She also describes her experiences trying to help other family emigrate and in the post-war years, to obtain restitution and information regarding family who perished, as well as her experiences attending the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.
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type: RecordSet
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn500894/alternateIDs/1
has or had holder: us-005578
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum