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"My deportation"

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01

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    Description
    The testimony describes Bernard Nissenbaum's deportation from France and his imprisonment in several concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other inmates, the division of various nationalities of prisoners in the Birkenau camp, the situation of the "Muselmänner" in various camps, the relationships between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the uprising. Bernard wrote the testimony around 1945-1946, primarily in German. His sister Gussie Weiner translated it into English around 1982.
    Date
    creation:  circa 1945
    Collection Creator
    Bernard Nissenbaum
    Biography
    Bernard Nissenbaum (born Berysz Bernard Nissenbaum) was born on 18 July 1895 in Łódź, Poland. He worked as a diamond cutter before the war. He was arrested and deported from a village in southern France in 1942, and survived several concentration and labor camps including Pawiak, Drancy, Lyon-Venissieux, Majdanek, Trzebinia, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Dachau. He was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp by the U.S. Army. Bernard immigrated to the United States in 1947 aboard the SS Marine Tiger.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 folder
    System of Arrangement
    The collection is arranged as a single folder.

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    The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Ida Stern donated Bernard Nissenbaum's "My Deportation," to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 5, 1984. Ida is the daughter of Bernard Nissenbaum.
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    2023-08-25 12:29:53
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