Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg from the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family in Budapest, 1944; postcard sent to Reichenberg's wife Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg by her brother Eugen Lowinger from Majdanek, 1943; letter sent by Helen Lowinger from Nitra to her daughter Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, 1941; personal documents of Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg and family, pre- and postwar
Postcards sent by Sándor Reichenberg, a forced laborer in the Hungarian Army labor battalions to family members in Budapest, 1944, a postcard sent to Ilona (Lowinger) Reichenberg, Sándor Reichenberg's wife, by her...
File Number : 2251
Type of Material : Personal Documents, Postcard, Letter
Personal documents of Desider Dezső Fuchs and Maria (Salamon) Fuchs, including various certificates, a hospitalization record, a travel pass and more, May-July 1945
Documents concerning Desider Fuchs, born in Margitta, 24 December 1904:
- Explanatory document written by inmates of the Dachau camp, among them Desider Fuchs, shortly before the liberation, following a request made by Dr. Paul Husarek, the infirmary physician, that they sign a document attesting that he treated the inmates well, 01 May 1945;
- Hospitalization record from the Dachau camp issued to Dezső Fuchs, 23 April 1945;
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File Number : 753
Type of Material : Personal Records, Personal Documents, Official Documentation
Letter of appointment of Rabbi Mendel Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, and certifications regarding his work as the rabbi of Ósándorfalva, 1941-1944
- Letter of appointment of Rabbi Menachem Schaechter as the rabbi of the Ósándorfalva community, signed by the heads of the households of the Ósándorfalva community, April 1941;
- Certification issued by the Orthodox community of Ósándorfalva that Rabbi Mendel Schaechter (born in Bustyaháza, 24 February 1920) is serving as the rabbi of the community, 05 May 1943; the certification was issued and signed by the heads of the community and...
File Number : 488
Type of Material : Certification, Official Documentation, Personal Records
Personal documentation of members of the Winter family, including confirmations regarding the parents' stay in DP camps, a birth certificate of their son Andras Winter, an income tax card of the father, and other documents, 1945-1949
- Confirmation issued in Wels DP camp that Ladislav Winter, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1906, was an inmate in a concentration camp in Germany, until the liberation; document dated, 10 May 1945;
- Confirmation issued by the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in Kassel, that László Winter was classified as a 1st Class worker, 30 October 1947;
- Income tax card of...
Memoirs of Margit (Weisz) Orman, born in Munkács, Hungary, 1912, regarding her experiences in Munkács, Auschwitz and the Zittau camp
Life before the war; scattering [?] of the family and her remaining with her mother, 1939.
Orders from the Germans to leave the apartments; deportation with her mother to forced labor in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including selection; life with other female inmates in the barracks; transfer to Zittau; liberation from the camp.
Unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel (where her three sisters lived); transfer to Atlit; life in Eretz...
File Number : 2187
Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Postcard, Letter of Testimony, Memoirs, Letter
Testimony of Shalom Jakubowitz, born in Sighetul Marmatiei, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Sighetul Marmatiei, Auschwitz-Birkenau; Buna-Monowitz and Buchenwald
Life before the war in Sighetul Marmatiei;
Outbreak of the war, 1939; increasing displays of antisemitism; draft of Jews to labor battalions; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; forced labor; transfer to Buna-Monowitz; forced death march of the inmates, 18 January 1945; travel on a train for eight days including mortality and eating snow; arrival in Buchenwald; life in the children's block in Buchenwald; liberation;
Aliya to Eretz...
Letters written by family members and friends in Sziget and other places in Romania, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and France to Samuel Jakobovits in Eretz Israel and documentation regarding Samuel Jakobovits, 1943-2010
- Letter sent to Samuel Jakobovits in Eretz Israel from Paris by friends who had been with him in Buchenwald, among them Elie Lazar Wiesel, 07 October 1945;
- Letters written by the sisters, Hedi, Feigi and Linci [Jakobovits] in Sziget, Bamberg and Marktredwitz to their brother Samuel Jakobovits in Eretz Israel, 1946-1947;
- Short letter from Bea [Wiesel], sister of Elie Lazar Wiesel in...
File Number : 2221
Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Personal Documents, Letter
Testimony of Mózes Farkas, born in Makó, Hungary, 1927, regarding his experiences in Makó, the Makó Ghetto, the Szeged Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering camp and more
Anti-Jewish decrees, 1944; obligation to wear a yellow band and badge; restrictions on movement; prohibition against the opening of businesses [?]; deportation to the Makó Ghetto; ghetto life including the prohibition against leaving the ghetto; transfer to the Szeged Ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz on the last transport from Hungary, June 1944; travel in train cars for a period of approximately six days; arrival in Auschwitz; selection by Mengele;...
Letter sent by Samuel Benedek from Sachsenhausen camp, Germany, to his non-Jewish neighbor, Jozsef Szasz in Nagyvarad, Romania, 03 August 1944
Comments by the submitter of the material:
Samuel Benedek was deported to Auschwitz together with his wife, Gisella. From Auschwitz he was transferred to Sachsenhausen camp and sent the letter from there. He did not survive the Holocaust. His son, Alexander Benedek, born in 1924, was drafted to labor battalions and spent the war there. Upon his return home to Nagyvarad he received the letter from the neighbor.
Documentation of the Vác District Court, 1948, regarding the Declaration of Death of Jenő Klein in Auschwitz, 1944
Also in the file:
- Passeport d'émigration (Emigration Passport) of Veronika Klein, issued in Budapest, 22 November 1955; aliya of Veronika Klein to Israel, 15 January 1956;
- Birth certificate of Rózsa Veronika Klein, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1937;
- Documentation regarding the reparations claim of the Klein family, 1958;
- Letter received by Vera Farkash (Rózsa Veronika Klein) in Israel from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 1990, regarding the death of her father Jenő Klein...
File Number : 8587
Type of Material : Document, Document, Passport, Legal Documentation, Letter
