Memoir entitled "I Never Left Janowska"

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.0561

Overview

Description: Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, where she worked as a forced laborer. After the war, she married and emigrated to the United States with her husband.
Date: publication/distribution: 1987
Reference: This memoir was later published under the same title: Kaplan, Helene C. I Never Left Janowska. New York: Holocaust Library, 1989. (DS135.U43 K379 1989)

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Copyright Holder: Christine Kaplan

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Christine Kaplan donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.