| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Feuer, Sol |
| Title: | Sol Feuer Papers |
| Dates: | 1944-2005 |
| Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) |
| Abstract: | Sol Feuer (1919-2007) was a Holocaust survivor and Cleveland, Ohio-area Yiddish writer and actor. Feuer, was born in Sighet Maramures, Romania, as Shlomo Zalmen ben Anshel Feuerwerker. While serving in the Romanian army during World War II, he was taken captive by the Nazis and transported first to a labor camp, and then to Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, where he worked as a shoemaker. Feuer arrived in Dachau only days before liberation by the American army in 1945. There, after the liberation, he met German artist Otto Fuchs, who sketched Feuer in his prison uniform. Feuer resided in Germany until he was able to come to the United States in 1949. Once in the Cleveland area, he became owner and operator of a Willowick shoe store. Feuer wrote extensively in both Yiddish and English, and his writings can now be found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. He often wrote for the Kol Israel Foundation, a group established by local survivors to which he belonged, and local magazines. Many of his works reflect his experiences during World War II and his life as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Feuer also sang and acted in local Jewish theatre, often appearing in Yiddish-language productions. The collection consists of articles, correspondence, drafts, newspaper clippings, notes, theatre programs, scripts, a memoir, and a sketch. |
| MS Number | MS 5139 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English and Yiddish |
Sol Feuer (1919-2007) was a Holocaust survivor and Cleveland, Ohio-area Yiddish writer and actor. Feuer, was born in Sighet Maramures, Romania, as Shlomo Zalmen ben Anshel Feuerwerker. While serving in the Romanian army during World War II, he was taken captive by the Nazis and transported first to a labor camp, and then to Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, where he worked as a shoemaker. Feuer arrived in Dachau only days before liberation by the American army in 1945. There, after the liberation, he met German artist Otto Fuchs, who sketched Feuer in his prison uniform. Feuer resided in Germany until he was able to come to the United States in 1949. Once in the Cleveland area, he became owner and operator of a Willowick shoe store.
Feuer wrote extensively in both Yiddish and English, and his writings can now be found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. He often wrote for the Kol Israel Foundation, a group established by local survivors to which he belonged, and local magazines. Many of his works reflect his experiences during World War II and his life as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Feuer also sang and acted in local Jewish theatre, often appearing in Yiddish-language productions sponsored by the Jewish Community Center.
The Sol Feuer Papers, 1945-2005 and undated, consist of articles, correspondence, drafts, newspaper clippings, notes, theatre programs, scripts, a memoir, and a sketch. The majority of the material is in Yiddish.
This collection is of value to researchers studying the experiences of Holocaust survivors, particularly in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. Of particular note are the stories of Feuer's time in concentration camps during World War II, such as his recounting of a Passover observed by prisoners while on a train from Buchenwald to Dachau, and his memoir, The Yellow Band, in both English and Yiddish. Also of note are the theatre programs, including a program from Mirele Efros, in which Feuer starred with famed actress Ida Kaminska, and the original sketch of Otto Fuchs.
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Separated MaterialAll photographs have been removed to the photograph and print collection.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 5139 Sol Feuer Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Sol Feuer in 2006.
Processed by Jessica Marra in 2012.
Series I: General Papers 1945-2005 and undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence 2001 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Drafts, untitled 1986-1988 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Newspaper clippings 1988, 2005, and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Notes 1992 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Programs, theater 1965-1968, 1976, and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Scripts, with annotations, including Shver tsu zayn a yid, Mirele Efros, and untitled undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Sketch, by Otto Fuchs (original removed to Oversize Folder 1) 1945 | |||||||||
Series II: Writings 1944-2001 and undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Borukh'l tayerer zolst mir zany gezund omen! undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | A finster gelekhter undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Dos gele band: an emesdike dertseylung 1984 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Ikh bin nisht keyn yid 1995 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Klivland dem 6tn juni 1991 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Mayn bar mitsve Sighet 1931 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | A maysele vos mayn foter "eh" hot mir fartseylt 2001 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Miami bitsh - 1975 (humoristish) undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | My Survival and Liberation undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | My Tree 1985 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Pesakh 1944 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Reb Berele 2000 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | S' a lign undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Vi bizt du bafrayt gevorn? undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | The Yellow Armband: A Memoir undated | |||||||||