Private Papers of R Halter

Photocopy of part of a handwritten account (16pp ms, 1997) of his childhood experiences of the German occupation of his home town Chodecz in Poland in 1939, the deportation of the entire Jewish population to the Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in late 1940 where he was put to work in a metal-processing factory, surviving the ordeal until 1944 when he was transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, describing the long journey there in the locked cattle-trucks; photocopies of official German documents recording the transfer of prisoners from Stutthof to Flossenburg concentration camps in November 1944, with a list of the prisoners including Roman Halter's name; and photocopies of various photographs (mostly from published sources) captioned by Halter.

Cataloguer SWW

Catalogue date 2005-08