Echoes from the Holocaust: a memoir
TitleEchoes from the Holocaust: a memoir
Author
Call number940.5318092/0427
Object number10952
Place of publicationKnoxville, Tennessee, United States
PublisherUniversity of Tennessee Press
Year of publication
1997
Physical descriptionxxiv,176p.
MaterialBook
ISBN9780870499562
Description
Memoir of Mira Ryczkewho who was born in 1923 in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). With the Polish capitulation to Germany in the autumn of 1939 Mira and her family were forced from their home. After several years in ghettos she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 where she escaped the gas chambers by being selected for slave labor. She was then transported to Bergen-Belsen where the British forces liberated the camp.