Overview
- Description
- Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family members; how she passed as a Gentile and found employment; her attempts to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates; her move to and war-time employment in Austria; the end of World War II; her meeting with members of the Jewish Brigade; and her illegal emigration to Palestine. The memoir also includes a poem about a young Jewish boy whose fate during the Holocaust is unknown and another describing the author's feelings for the Jews who died in the Holocaust.
- Collection Creator
- Sara Getzler
- Biography
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Sara Getzler (b. Markovitz, Poland) emigrated to Palestine in July 1945
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Extent
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2 folders
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- 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).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- False personation. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Tarnów.
- Geographic Name
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Kraków (Poland) Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Personal Name
- Getzler, Sara.
- Corporate Name
- Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Sara Getzler donated the memoir and poems to the United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives in Nov. 1993.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:41:17
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504298
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