- Collection
- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 21,1 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
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- Collection
- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 15 cm x W: 21,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1963]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Hungarian
- Notes
- 1 page. One-sided horizontal paper with typed black ink text. Narrative: Deszo Losoncy, also known as Löwy or Losonczy, was born in Szentes, Hungary on 1904-04-12. He was deported to Birkenau, Poland for 14 to 16 months as a political prisoner. In this concentration camp, he was forced to work and clean Dr. Josef Mengele's laboratory. Later, Deszo Losoncy was also detained in Sachsenhausen, Germany, where he was liberated on 1945-04-25 by the Red Army. After the war, he lived in Budapest, Hungary and became a textile professional. He left Hungary soon after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in Montreal, Canada in 1957-01 with his wife Sylvia Holcz.
- Accession No.
- 2014.21.05
- Name Access
- Loronci, Susan
- Places
- Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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