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Simon Drucker memoir

Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0243

Date: 1999 September 21
Language: French
Genre/Form: Personal Narratives.
Extent: 1 folder

Document Creator: Simon Drucker
Biography: Simon Drucker was born in Paris in 1924 to Abraham and Thérèse Drucker. His father was deported to Auschwitz in June 1942 and killed there. He was arrested with his mother and brother during the Vel d’Hiv roundup and transferred to Beaune-la-Rolande. His mother and brother were both deported from Drancy to Auschwitz and killed. Drucker passed through a variety of prisons and concentration camps, occasionally escaping only to be re-arrested. He was selected for work at Auschwitz, evacuated by death march, and was liberated in May 1945. He spent the years from 1948 to 1952 fighting in Israel, but returned to Paris to re-establish his life.
System of Arrangement: The Simon Drucker memoir is arranged as a single series: I. Simon Drucker memoir, 1999
Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Jews--France--Paris.
Corporate Name: Beaune-la-Rolande (Concentration camp)
Drancy (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Vélodrome d’hiver (Paris, France)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Simon Drucker donated the Simon Drucker memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2017-07-11 12:50:14
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