Letter

itemSeptember 16, 1945

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: September 16, 1945 (indexed as 1945)
Level: item
Extent: Letter : Paper : handwritten : Graphite pencil : beige, grey ; Ht: 10,1 cm x W: 13,1 cm
Scope & content: 1 page, double-sided horizontal paper. Left edge of paper is perforated. Recto contains handwriting addressed to "Gusztim". Handwriting continues onto verso, dated at left centre "945.szept 16.". Bottom half contains what appears to be the sender's address. 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.
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Genre / form: textual record
Format: Document
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Language: Hungarian
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