Pages:
100
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Photocopy of autograph (clear handwriting in modern script).
Year of publication:
1940-1942
Keywords:
Gurs (Concentration camps)
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Concentration camps.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies Jews.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Religious life.
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Women authors.
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France History 1933-1945.
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Les Milles (France) Concentration camps.
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Cuba Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
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United States Emigration and immigration 1945-
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
Diary by Rosa Traub, written between 1940 to 1942. The first entry dates from November 20, 1940, written in Gurs internment camp in France, and recollects the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, and the effects on school children, businesses, cultural life etc. She herself was a witness to the burning of books. Her business had to be sold, and their goods were stolen. On October 21, 1940, all Jews were deported from Baden and the surrounding region to France. Rosa describes in detail when the Gestapo came to their apartment to arrest them. She was put on a train to Orleans, France, where she had to wait several days on the train until the internment camp in Gurs was set up for the new prisoners. She then describes the conditions and her experiences at Gurs in detail. At first, there were still some Spanish prisoners (Spanish Republicans). In February of 1941, her sister Bertha dies at Gurs. In October 1941, visas to get to the USA via Cuba arrive for Rosa and her family. They depart from Gurs on October 23, 1941, to Marseilles, where they board a ship in February (after many difficulties). On Rosa's last entry in her diary, dated from February 12, 1941, she decribes the trip on the ship which made stops at Casablanca, Morocco, and Bermuda, before arriving in Cuba. They were told to stay in Cuba until the end of the war.
Note:
Available on microfilm
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German and English
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Synopsis in file
URL:
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