Postcard
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : handwritten, printed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, blue, green ; Ht: 10,4 cm x W: 14,6 cm
- Date
- March 07, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : Paper : handwritten, printed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, blue, green ; Ht: 10,4 cm x W: 14,6 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 07, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hungarian
- Notes
- 1 page, double-sided horizontal paper. Recto in handwriting of Mancika Mandula Weinberger, signed "Manci". At centre between handdrawn lines and in block capital letters is the handwriting of Evike Weinberger. Below is the handwriting of Kalman Weinberger and is and dated at the bottom left "944.III/7. At very bottom is handwriting of Pali Weinberger. Verso continues in handwriting of Pal, following is Kalman's handwriting, signed "Apa" [father]. At right, in Mancika's handwriting is addressed to "Weinberger Gustav / 108/101 msz." in Maroshéviz, Maros-Torda county. At top right in blue ink is the signature of Sergeant Bigany. Card 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), Ilona (1881-1944) and Evike Weinberger (1938-1944). 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 Sergeant Bigany. 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.
- 2014.01.51
- Name Access
- Kalman Naves, Elaine
- Places
- Vaja, Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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