Sara Weber Schwimmer memoir

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.275

Overview

Description: Consists of a bound copy of a memoir, handwritten by Sara Weber Schwimmer, originally of Czechoslovakia. The memoir, addressed to her children and grandchildren, describes her childhood, memories of her siblings, and her memories of chores and recipes. She describes how various countries occupied her area, and her memories of moving to Budapest. She spent most of the war in Budapest, and remembers life in Hungary in 1944, enduring antisemitic persecution. She was ordered to perform forced labor and describes witnessing a mass shooting. She was then turned over to the Germans and deported, first to Buchenwald, then to Ravensbrück, and from there to Burgau. The memoir is incomplete.
Date: creation: circa 2007
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Hessing
Collection Creator: Sara Schwimmer

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Copyright Holder: Sara Schwimmer

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Judith Hessing donated her mother's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 28 Sept. 2009.