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Object description
Copy of his ts memoir (162pp) recalling his childhood in a small town near Dresden in the 1920s and 1930s, his father's temporary imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp and the family's move to Dresden following the 'Night of Broken Glass' in November 1938, the father's subsequent emigration to Britain, the increasing hardship suffered by his wife and two sons in Germany after the outbreak of war in September 1939, their transportation to the Riga Ghetto where Ezra survived as an apprentice gardener, his transfer in October 1943 to the labour camp at Strasdenhof (part of the main camp at Riga-Kaiserwald) and his experiences thereafter in the camps at Stutthof and Burggraben (Danzig) where he was liberated by Soviet troops during the fierce fighting for Danzig early in 1945, and his subsequent attempts to create a new identity for himself as a British subject and (successfully) to rejoin his father in the UK via Germany and Belgium; together with related documents including three notebooks of recollections written in German, his German passport (Reisepass, 1939), contemporary documents concerning his father's business and his emigration to the UK, lists of names associated with the administration of the Riga Ghetto, transcripts of postwar BBC broadcasts featuring Ezra Jurmann, and the texts of songs sung by concentration camp prisoners.
Content description
Copy of his ts memoir (162pp) recalling his childhood in a small town near Dresden in the 1920s and 1930s, his father's temporary imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp and the family's move to Dresden following the 'Night of Broken Glass' in November 1938, the father's subsequent emigration to Britain, the increasing hardship suffered by his wife and two sons in Germany after the outbreak of war in September 1939, their transportation to the Riga Ghetto where Ezra survived as an apprentice gardener, his transfer in October 1943 to the labour camp at Strasdenhof (part of the main camp at Riga-Kaiserwald) and his experiences thereafter in the camps at Stutthof and Burggraben (Danzig) where he was liberated by Soviet troops during the fierce fighting for Danzig early in 1945, and his subsequent attempts to create a new identity for himself as a British subject and (successfully) to rejoin his father in the UK via Germany and Belgium; together with related documents including three notebooks of recollections written in German, his German passport (Reisepass, 1939), contemporary documents concerning his father's business and his emigration to the UK, lists of names associated with the administration of the Riga Ghetto, transcripts of postwar BBC broadcasts featuring Ezra Jurmann, and the texts of songs sung by concentration camp prisoners.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2003-06