Letter

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: July 18, 1941 (indexed as 1941)
Level: item
Scope & content: 1 page, double-sided, folded vertically and horizontally. Recto, top left printed letterhead reads "WEINBERGER TESTVEREK [translation: brothers] / VAJA". Letter is addressed to [translated from Hungarian]: "My beloved Children" and includes handwriting of the Weinberger family including: Ilona Schwarcz Weinberger, Mancika Mandula Weinberger, Pali Weinberger, and Kalman Weinberger. Narrative: Donor is Elaine Kalman Naves, daughter of Gustav and Anikó Weinberger. Mancika Weinberger (born 1910; died 1944) was the first wife of Gustav Weinberger. Feri Weinberger (1907-1944) is Gustav's brother. Both Mancika and Feri were killed in Auschwitz in 1944. 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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Extent: Letter : Paper : handwritten, printed : Ink : beige, brown ; Ht: 29 cm x W: 22,5 cm
Genre / form: textual record
Format: Document
Text in the image: WEINBERGER TESTVÉREKVAJATELEFON: VAJA 2.VASUTÁLLOMÁS • VAJA-ROHODVaja, 194Kedves GyermekeimTELEFON: VAJA 8.Vaja, 1941. július 18.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language: Hungarian
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