us-005578-irn501553-irn506453
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Werner Jacob Lipton (Liebschüz) left Germany in 1939 for Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes).
has beginning date: 1995-01-01
has end date: 1995-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 686
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn506453
is or was included in: us-005578-irn501553
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Contains a memoir of Werner Jacob Lipton (b. Liebschüz) in which he describes life in prewar Mindelheim, Germany; how life changed for Jews after 1938; the boarding schools he attended when Jewish children were banned from German public schools; his parents' decision in 1939 to send him to Switzerland where relatives could provide for him; his time in Swiss Kinderheime (children's homes) in Herrliberg and Männedorf; and his postwar life in the United States to which he immigrated in 1946. The memoir includes captioned family photographs, hand-drawn maps of southern Germany and Switzerland, and an obituary of Abraham Gundelfinger, a relative who helped finance his immigration to the United States.
title: Fragments of a childhood and youth autobiographical memories