The autobiography of a fearless fighter in Nazi Germany and Shanghai exile

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0104

Overview

Description: Consists of one memoir, handwritten on notebook paper, by Bruno Keith (born Lehrer Bruno Katz), originally of Germany. In Part I of his memoir, Mr. Keith describes his childhood, his schooling, his work as a teacher at a Jewish school, Kristallnacht, and his internment in Sachsenhausen-Oranienberg. After his release in 1940, he left Trieste to Shanghai. Part II of the memoir describes his life in Shanghai in the Jewish community, where he lived for eight years.
Date: creation: 1997

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Bruno Keith donated his memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.