The copy of the Alland memoir was initially sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department by Dr. Rhoda Lewin. The memoir was used by Dr. Lewin as a part of an oral history project conducted under the auspices of the Jewish Comminuty Relations Council of the Anti-Defamation League of Minnesota and the Dakotas. The memoir was rourted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Holly Snyder on 18 Oct. 1991. The original memoir was written by Bronislawa Alland (now Bernadette Dukas) in Polish from Dec. 1945 to Mar. 1947. It was translated into English by George Alland, brother of the author, in 1989.