Letter
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : handwritten, printed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, blue, brown ; Ht: 29,6 cm x W: 19,7 cm
- Date
- March 05, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : handwritten, printed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, blue, brown ; Ht: 29,6 cm x W: 19,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 05, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hungarian
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided vertical paper, folded horizontally and vertically. Recto, handwriting of Ilona, Kalman and Pali Weinberger fills the entire page. Handwriting runs vertically up the left side. Verso, in Mancika's handwriting and dated at the bottom left "III.5". Envelope, recto top right contains one blue 20 forint fiscal stamp and one brown 10 forint fiscal stamp and is addressed in Mancika's handwriting to "Weinberger Gustav / 108/101 msz." in Maroshéviz, Maros-Torda county. Letter contains correspondence between the Weinberger family and Gustav Weinberger, contains family updates and well-wishes. Narrative: Donor is Elaine Kalman Naves, daughter of Gustav and Anikó Weinberger. The letter is in the handwriting of the Weinberger family addressed to Gustav. Kalman (1880-1944), Mancika (1910-1944) -- the first wife of Gustav Weinberger, Pal (1908-1945) and Ilona Weinberger (1881-1944). All but Gustav were killed in Auschwitz in 1944 and Pal was shot at the end of the war when Buchenwald camp was liberated. The correspondence was under supervision by Captain Soós. This collection of correspondence was used as part of the research for the following book: Kalman Naves, Elaine. Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Print.
- Accession No.
- 2014.01.50
- Name Access
- Kalman Naves, Elaine
- Places
- Vaja, Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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