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https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45500
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Date
- March 26, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 26, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hungarian
- Notes
- 2 pages. Personal letter from a father to his daughter, explaining why he was forced to leave her and admonishing her to have a good life and be grateful for the opportunities she will be given. Narrative: Written to the donor by her father. She was to be sent to her uncle and aunt (her father's brother and his wife) when she was 6 or 7 months old. Her father was sent to a forced labour camp in the Ukraine; he died during the war. Her mother was placed in a ghetto, then was later deported to Bergen-Belsen. Marie went with her. Both survived the war.
- Accession No.
- 1997.18.21
- Name Access
- Retek, Marie
- Places
- Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45501
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Date
- March 26, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 26, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hungarian
- Notes
- 1 page. Personal letter from a mother to her sister in law in Italy, asking her to take good care of her daughter, 6 month old Marika. She is sending her daughter away because she believes she will have a better chance of survival with her aunt. Narrative: Written to the donor by her father. She was to be sent to her uncle and aunt (her father's brother and his wife) when she was 6 or 7 months old. Her father was sent to a forced labour camp in the Ukraine; he died during the war. Her mother was placed in a ghetto, then was later deported to Bergen-Belsen. Marie went with her. Both survived the war.
- Accession No.
- 1997.18.23
- Name Access
- Retek, Marie
- Places
- Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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