Overview
- Description
- Consists of one handwritten memoir, stapled and bound by a red cover with each entry dated 1985, telling the story of her family, childhood, and adulthood, ending with her family’s arrival at the Riga ghetto in 1941.
- Date
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before 1941
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Paul Maurer
- Collection Creator
- Irma Maurer
- Biography
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Irma Maurer and her family were forced to live in the Rīga Ghetto in 1941. After liberation, they stayed in Latvia through the 1980s. Irma immigrated to Israel in 1990 where she eventually settled.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Memoirs. Personal narratives.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Rīga. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Latvia--Riga--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Rīga (Latvia) Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Maurer, Irma.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2021 by Paul Maurer, grandson of Irma Maurer.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-28 11:28:42
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724204
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- Terms of Use
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