Overview
- Description
- Describes her childhood in Poland; her imprisonment in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her incarceration in Auschwitz; the fate of her family; her reunion with her sister in Poland; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation of Germany; the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and their emigration to the United States in 1950.
- Date
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undated:
- Collection Creator
- Anna Gerut
- Biography
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Anna Gerut (née Chana Dina Leah Warszawski; Łódź, Poland, 15 May 1922- ) immigrated to the United States in 1950.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
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- Conditions on Access
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography. Jews--Poland--History--20th century. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Geographic Name
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp) Łódź (Poland) United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Gerut, Leo.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Anna Gerut donated a copy of her memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:01:32
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