Research Catalog

Title

Yesterday : my story / by Hadassah Rosensaft ; with an introduction by Elie Wiesel.

Author

Rosensaft, Hadassah, 1912-1997.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project.

Description

ix, 207 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Dr. Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft embodied the Jewish essence of the Holocaust in both its tragic and heroic dimensions. She experienced the full brunt of its horrors when her entire family was murdered by the Germans. Despite being subjected to tremendous physical suffering, she dedicated herself to helping her fellow concentration camp inmates, first at Auschwitz-Birkenau and then at Bergen-Belsen, and she is credited with having saved hundreds of lives in both camps. Immediately upon her liberation at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, she worked alongside the British Army medical personnel in a desperate effort to save the lives of thousands of critically ill survivors. In September 1945, she was one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution at the first trial of Nazi war criminals. From 1945 until 1950, she was one of the leaders of the Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany and subsequently remained at the forefront of the survivors' efforts to perpetuate the memory of the annihilation of European Jewry. Between 1978 and 1994, she played a key role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Subject

• Rosensaft, Hadassah, 1912-1997
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
• 1939-1945
• Jews > Poland > Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) > Biography
• Jewish women physicians > Biography
• Women Nazi concentration camp inmates > Biography
• Nazi concentration camp inmates > Medical care
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives
• Holocaust survivors > Germany
• Holocaust survivors
• Jewish women physicians
• Jews
• Women Nazi concentration camp inmates
• Germany
• Poland > Sosnowiec (Województwo Ślas̜kie)

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Personal narratives.

Contents

Introduction / Elie Wiesel -- My Youth -- The Beginning of the War Years -- Deportation -- Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Bergen-Belsen -- "Hello, Hello. You Are Free." -- Yossel -- We Organize Ourselves Politically -- The Belsen Trial -- Belsen and Jews in the British Zone of Germany -- The Children -- Belsen: 1946-1950 -- Reparations from Germany -- A New Life -- Coming to New York -- Belsen Survivors after 1950 -- Yossel's Death -- Born in Bergen-Belsen -- President Carter's Commission on the Holocaust -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Council -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Closing Thoughts -- Epilogue / Menachem Z. Rosensaft.

Call Number

JFE 22-2928

ISBN

• 089604162X
• 9780896041622
• 9990927359
• 9789990927351

OCLC

55801757

Author

Rosensaft, Hadassah, 1912-1997.

Title

Yesterday : my story / by Hadassah Rosensaft ; with an introduction by Elie Wiesel.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, ©2004.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project.

Other Form:

Online version: Rosensaft, Hadassah, 1912-1997. Yesterday. Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, ©2004 (OCoLC)607350187

Online version: Rosensaft, Hadassah, 1912-1997. Yesterday. Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, ©2004 (OCoLC)609620391

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2928