us-005578-irn500927
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Flora Herzberger (Bügingen, Germany, 14 May 1899 - 28 Dec 1963, New York) was deported from Düsseldorf, Germany with her family to the Łódź ghetto in 1941. Her husband died in Łódź and she and her children were deported to Auschwitz, and then a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. After liberation she immigrated to the United States and settled in New York.
date: 1945 June
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
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has record set type: Item
identifier: irn500927
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The collection is arranged as a single series.
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scope and content: Consists of a typed copy of one memoir, in English, written by Flora Herzberger in Rodewisch, Germany, in June 1945. In the memoir, Mrs. Herzberger describes the family's deportation from Germany into Poland to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, her husband's death in the ghetto, the deportation of the children of Łódź, and her deportation to Auschwitz with her son and daughter. She describes life in Auschwitz and being sent, with her daughter, to forced laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after her liberation.
title: A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt