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A life sentence of memories

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Hahn, Issy, 1927-
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Memoirs of a Jew born in Konin, Poland in 1927. Describes the German occupation in 1939, after which the family was deported to the ghetto of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. In late 1940, Hahn's parents, sister, and one brother were deported to Treblinka and killed. Hahn and another brother escaped from the ghetto, but were eventually caught and sent to work in a nearby factory. In summer 1942 they were sent to Auschwitz (from which they escaped for a short time), then to the Jaworzno labor camp, on a death march to Blechhammer, from there to the Litomerice labor camp, and then on a death transport to Landeshut, where they were liberated. The brothers emigrated to England in 1946. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Title A life sentence of memories : Konin, Auschwitz, London / Issy Hahn
with a foreword by Theo Richmond.
Publisher LONDON : Vallentine, Mitchell
Creation Date 1969
Series The Library of Holocaust testimonies
Extent xiv, 175 p., [16] pages of plates : ill., ports
23 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990021419430205171

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