Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

textual record

Physical Description

Postcard : Paper : typed, handwrittedn, printed, stamped : Ink; colour pencil : beige, black, blue, red ; Ht: 10,65 cm x W: 15,4 cm

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Date

May 8, 1944-May 09, 1944

Physical Condition

Good

Language

Hungarian

Notes

1 page, double-sided horizontal paper. Recto, dated at top right: "Nyirl?v?.1944 május 8". Four lines of typed text. Signature in blue at bottom right. Verso left, printed letterhead that reads: "Gábor Bátky De Fels?bátka's farm and agricultural distillery, Nyirl?v?" (trad.). Right side addressed to "Weinberger Gustáv / Borgógrund. [sic] / 108/101 kmsz. / Besztercze Naszod megye". At top right, one grey 18 forint fiscal stamp. At top right, illegible signature of controller in red colour pencil. Narrative: Donor is Elaine Kalman Naves, daughter of Gustav and Anikó Weinberger. The card is sent from Gabor Batky 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.

2014.01.109

Name Access

Kalman Naves, Elaine

Places

Niyrl?v?, Hungary, Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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