Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Yiddish newspaper, Ibergang, for August 5, 1948, obtained by Kasriel Ejlender in Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany, where he lived from circa 1945-1948. After Germany invaded Soviet territory in June 1941, eighteen year old Kasriel and his family had to move into the Jewish ghetto in Dereczyn, Poland. In May 1942, Kasriel was deported to a German labor camp in Mogilev. For the next three years, he was transferred to a series of concentration camps: Majdanek, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau. He was liberated in spring 1945 by Soviet forces. He worked as a translator for the Soviet Army and when the war ended in May 1945, he moved to Fohrenwald. Kasriel began medical school in Munich in 1946. In 1948, he emigrated to the United States with the help of relatives. He eventually learned that that his mother, father, and sister had joined Russian partisans in the woods, where they died of exposure and hunger; his brother had been shot and killed during deportation.
- Title
- Ibergang, August 5, 1948
- Alternate Title
- Transition
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1948 August 05
- Geography
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publication:
Fohrenwald (Displaced persons camp);
Munich (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Kasriel K. Eilender
- Markings
- front page, upper right corner, black ink : Published under EUCOM Civil / Affairs Division Authorization / Number UNDP 219. Respons- / ible publisher: Marc Liebhaber, / Munich, Ismaningerstr. 54 -- / Printed in Akademische Buch- / druckerei, Munich, Amalienstr. 81. / Frequency in 1500 copies, with / circulation: weekly. / Chief Editor: Marc Liebhaber. / Editor: Sz. Rubin.
front page, upper left corner, black ink : 5. August 1948 - Contributor
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Publisher:
Federacje fun jidn fun Pojln in der Amerik. zone
Physical Details
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Newspapers
- Object Type
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German newspapers (lcsh)
- Genre/Form
- Newspapers.
- Physical Description
- 4 p.
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The newspaper was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Kasriel Eilender.
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- 2022-07-28 18:11:17
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The collection consists of one ration card and three publications relating to the experiences of Kasriel Eilender at Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust during which he had been imprisoned in Mogilev, Majdanek, Plaszow, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau concentration camps.
Date: 1945-1948
Föhrenwald displaced persons camp January ration card issued to a Polish Jewish concentration camp survivor
Object
Unused ration coupon for January issued to Kasriel Ejlender in Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany, where he lived from circa 1945-1948. After Germany invaded Soviet territory in June 1941, eighteen year old Kasriel and his family had to move into the Jewish ghetto in Dereczyn, Poland. In May 1942, Kasriel was deported to a German labor camp in Mogilev. For the next three years, he was transferred to a series of concentration camps: Majdanek, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau. He was liberated in spring 1945 by Soviet forces. He worked as a translator for the Soviet Army and when the war ended in May 1945, he moved to Fohrenwald. Kasriel began medical school in Munich in 1946. In 1948, he emigrated to the United States with the help of relatives. He eventually learned that that his mother, father, and sister had joined Russian partisans in the woods, where they died of exposure and hunger; his brother had been shot and killed during deportation.
[Newspaper]
Object
Yiddish newspaper, Unser Weg, for July 30, 1948, obtained by Kasriel Ejlender in Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany, where he lived from circa 1945-1948. After Germany invaded Soviet territory in June 1941, eighteen year old Kasriel and his family had to move into the Jewish ghetto in Dereczyn, Poland. In May 1942, Kasriel was deported to a German labor camp in Mogilev. For the next three years, he was transferred to a series of concentration camps: Majdanek, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau. He was liberated in spring 1945 by Soviet forces. He worked as a translator for the Soviet Army and when the war ended in May 1945, he moved to Fohrenwald. Kasriel began medical school in Munich in 1946. In 1948, he emigrated to the United States with the help of relatives. He eventually learned that that his mother, father, and sister had joined Russian partisans in the woods, where they died of exposure and hunger; his brother had been shot and killed during deportation.
Almanacs
Object
Yiddish almanac, B'Midbar, obtained by Kasriel Ejlender in Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany, where he lived from circa 1945-1948. After Germany invaded Soviet territory in June 1941, eighteen year old Kasriel and his family had to move into the Jewish ghetto in Dereczyn, Poland. In May 1942, Kasriel was deported to a German labor camp in Mogilev. For the next three years, he was transferred to a series of concentration camps: Majdanek, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau. He was liberated in spring 1945 by Soviet forces. He worked as a translator for the Soviet Army and when the war ended in May 1945, he moved to Fohrenwald. Kasriel began medical school in Munich in 1946. In 1948, he emigrated to the United States with the help of relatives. He eventually learned that that his mother, father, and sister had joined Russian partisans in the woods, where they died of exposure and hunger; his brother had been shot and killed during deportation.
