Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

textual record

Physical Description

Letter : Paper : typed, handwritten, printed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, purple ; Ht: 14,8 cm x W: 21,1 cm

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Date

October 12, 1946

Physical Condition

Good

Language

Hungarian

Notes

1 page double-sided horizontal paper, folded vertically. Handwritten date at top right "946.II.12". Typed text with handwritten signature at bottom centre. Verso contains printed text from what appears to be a claim or inventory form. Narrative: Donor is Elaine Kalman Naves, daughter of Gusztáv and Anikó Weinberger. Gusztáv returned from the front to learn that 34 members of his extended family, including his wife and small daughter Évike, had been deported to Auschwitz. Only one cousin returned. He remarried Anikó Schwartz and they had two daughters, Elaine and Judith. 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.

2014.01.142

Name Access

Kalman Naves, Elaine

Places

Hungary, Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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