George Wierzbicki Memoir, 1950

Collection context

Creator:
Wierzbicki, George, 1920-
Extent:
90 pages 90 pages
Language:
French .
Scope and content:

Memoirs of Wierzbicki. The carbon copy typescript "Vous qui entrez ici laissez toute esperance" was edited and translated into French by Marthe Bernard. It deals with the writer's arrest in Warsaw by the Gestapo, and his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

Biographical / historical:

Member of the Polish resistance movement during World War II.

Access and use

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