Language:
English
Pages:
21 pages (single space) :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1996
Keywords:
Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
;
Bakers.
;
Collective settlements
;
Death marches.
;
Ghettos.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Refugees.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Israel.
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration 1946.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Chayim Gefen, written in 1992, translated into English by Jacob Mueller in 1996, including recollections of life in Nazi Germany, of his family's emigration to Poland, of the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation, of the confinement of his family in the ghetto of Skelicin, of his experiences in the concentration camps of Mielece in Poland and Flossenburg in Bavaria, of the death march from Flossenburg to Neustadt (on the Waldnaab), of being liberated by the American army in Stamsried, of life as a Displaced Person in Frankfurt, of his emigration to Palestine via a transit camp in Marseilles, of his stay in camp Atlith in Palestine and in Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan, and of his visit to Flossenburg on a trip back to Germany in the 1990s.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
English
,
Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=397105&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
