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Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944

Postcard sent to Mórné [Ilona] Weisz in Budapest by her two sons, György Weisz and Tibor Weisz, who were living an International Red Cross children's home in Budapest, 21 December 1944 Notes from Aharon Weisz, who submitted the material: Mór and Ilona Weisz lived in Budapest together with their sons Aharon, born in 1926, who submitted the material, and Avri, born in 1930. Mór Weisz was born in Ürmény, Czechoslovakia in 1895, and moved to Budapest in the 1920s; he received a draft notice to report for service in a labor battalion in Jászberény in 1943. He was transferred to a number of labor camps and...

File Number : 2202

Type of Material : Postcard

Language : Hungarian

Memoirs of Zsuzsanna Feld, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in Obuda, in Koghaza and in Mauthausen

Memoirs of Zsuzsanna Feld, born in 1918, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in Obuda, in Kophaza and in Mauthausen Life in Budapest including deportation to a marked house, summer 1944; deportation to a brick factory in Obuda; life there; cruelty of Hungarian soldiers; transfer to Kophaza by forced march; life in Kophaza including labor for local villagers; deportation towards Mauthausen by forced march; women attacked with iron rods and hammers by SS guards; murder of some of the women; transfer to Mauthausen; camp life including murder of the sick women; the German Army flees;...

File Number : 8503

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Testimony, Names, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian

Memoirs of Gabriella (Fried) Falus, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1930, regarding her experiences in Budapest and the experiences of the family of her mother, Rozalia Rabinek, and the family of her father, Jozsef Fried

File Number : 8274

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : English, Hungarian

List of Jews from Hungary who perished in a camp in Dorosics, Ukraine, 1943

List of Jews from Hungary who perished in a camp in Dorosics, Ukraine, 1943 The file includes: About the murder of Jews in Dorosics, from the Erec periodical; Personal document of Mendel Weisz, grandfather of the submitter of the material, who perished in the camp, from the Hadtorteneti Intezet es Muzeum card catalog.

File Number : 1317

Type of Material : Personal Documents, List of Murdered Persons, Article

Language : Hungarian

A letter written by Bodog Szerb Neuberger in Budapest to his son Janos in a labor battalion in 1944, confirmation of the murder of Bodog Szerb, and John Janos Szerb's memoirs regarding his experiences in 1944-1945 - farewell letter written by Bodog Szerb in Budapest to his son Janos in a labor battalion on 29 June 1944 (with a translation into English). His mother also wrote two lines in the letter; - document from the Anti-Fascist Association in Hungary given to Claire Robert (formerly Klara Steiner) in Paris in 1992, regarding the fate of her first husband Bogod Szerb (formerly Neuberger), born in Telcs...

File Number : 5104

Type of Material : Genealogy, Personal Documents, Speech, Letter, Certification, Memoirs

Language : English, German, Hungarian

Letter written by Arpad Balassa in Budapest to his brother Andor in Eretz Israel in 1946, with his memoirs regarding his and his family’s experiences in Budapest

Letter written by Arpad Balassa in Budapest to his brother Andor in Eretz Israel in 1946, with his memoirs regarding his and his family’s experiences in Budapest The rise of anti-Semitism in Hungary from the late 1930s; imposition of bans and restrictions on Hungarian Jews; dismissal of Jews from various jobs; growing incitement against Jews; indifference or enthusiasm regarding the persecution of Jews on the part of the majority of the Hungarian population; imposition of restrictions on movement of Jews with the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; capture of Jews in the streets and their...

File Number : 11505

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs

Language : Hungarian

Correspondence of sisters Anna (Erdelyi) Vajda and Bozsi (Erdelyi) Ladanyi in liberated Austria with their relatives in Budapest from April 1945, and documents confirming Arpad Vajda's service in labor battalions from 1944 Letters and postcards: - Postcard written by Annus Vajda and her sister Bozsi Ladanyi in Lichtenworth to Klara Balint in Budapest on 15 April 1945, in which they asked her to inform their parents that they were well; - Postcard written by Anna Vajda in Lichtenworth to her father Nathan Erdelyi in Budapest, informing him of her liberation; - Letter written by Gitta Glauber in Budapest...

File Number : 5072

Type of Material : Certification, Letter, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : English, Hungarian

Testimony of Emanuel Meneile Hirsh, born in Luduș, Romania in 1933, regarding his experiences in Luduș, Turda and Vișeul de Sus

Testimony

Testimony of Emanuel Meneile Hirsh, born in Luduș, Romania in 1933, regarding his experiences in Luduș, Turda and Vișeul de Sus Family life in Luduș before the war; transfer of his father to forced labor in 1941; removal of Jewish children from Romanian schools; deportation to Turda in summer 1941; curfew in the mornings; wearing a yellow badge; antisemitism; escape back to Luduș in summer 1942; return of his father from forced labor; transfer of men to forced labor in Luduș; escape to the area where deportees were put on trains leaving Hungary in 1944; surrender of Romania in summer 1944; re-annexation of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence by the Pasternak family in Czechoslovakia before the war; postcards sent to Jakob Pasternak in Eretz Israel by his relatives in Maidan during 1939-1941; story of the family's experiences during the Holocaust; postcards received by Ester Wolf from her parents and siblings in Mukacevo in 1935 Correspondence by the Pasternak family: - Postcards sent to Jeno Pasternak in Mukacevo, Tacovo, Bardejov and Olomouc by his family in Maidan during 1931-1935; - Postcards sent to Jeno Pasternak in Mukacevo, Bardejov and Olomouc by his family members and friends in Piestany, Dubove, Volove and Brno...

File Number : 4387

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Documentary, Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Czech, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Blank envelopes from letters sent to Arnost [Ernst] Fischer in Ferramonti di Tarsia camp in 1942 and while in the British Army in 1945; summaries of the life experiences of Ernst David Fischer and his brother Joseph Fischer - Three envelopes (blank) from letters sent to Arnost Fischer: --- in Ferramonti di Tarsia camp - by an unidentified sender in Bratislava on 04/07/1942 (the envelope is damaged); --- in Salerno by the Consulate of Czechoslovakia in Rome on 15/01/1945; --- in Tel Aviv by the British Army on 29/05/1945; - Summary of the life experiences of Arnost Ernst (Ernesto, Arnoi) David Fischer,...

File Number : 3983

Type of Material : Biography, Envelope

Language : Italian, Hebrew, English

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