Letter
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten, printed : Ink; colour pencil : beige, blue, black, red ; Ht: 14,45 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Date
- April 24, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten, printed : Ink; colour pencil : beige, blue, black, red ; Ht: 14,45 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- April 24, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided horizontal paper, folded vertically. Recto, letterhead at top left reads: "Dr. BÉKÉS KÁLMÁN / UGYVÉD / DEBRECEN / Batthány-u. 17. sz. (Városi bérház) / TELEFON: 24-88". At right, dated "Debrecen, 1944.aprilis 24." Typedwritten letter on recto, continues onto verso. Signed "Kalman" at top right. Below, one handwritten line signed "Erzsi" and below that two lines in the handwriting of Agi Békés. Envelope: Recto, printed letterhead at top right. Address in Kalman's handwriting to "Weinberger Gustav / 108/101 mszd. / Bihar / Bihar co." At top centre, illegible signature of controller in red colour pencil. Letter contains correspondence between the Békés family and Gustav Weinberger, correspondence regarding the Weinberger family's impending deportation from Vaja to the ghetto in Kisvárda. Narrative: Donor is Elaine Kalman Naves, daughter of Gustav and Anikó Weinberger. The letter is from the Békés family to Gustav Weinberger. The correspondence was under supervision by a controller. 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.
- 2014.01.94
- Name Access
- Kalman Naves, Elaine
- Places
- Debrecen, Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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