Where
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- March 26, 1944 (indexed as 1944)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Letter : paper : handwritten : ink : beige, black ; Ht: 11 1/2 in. x W: 8 1/2 in.
- Scope & content
- 1 page. Personal letter from a mother to her sister in law in Italy, asking her to take good care of her daughter, 6 month old Marika. She is sending her daughter away because she believes she will have a better chance of survival with her aunt. Narrative: Written to the donor by her father. She was to be sent to her uncle and aunt (her father's brother and his wife) when she was 6 or 7 months old. Her father was sent to a forced labour camp in the Ukraine; he died during the war. Her mother was placed in a ghetto, then was later deported to Bergen-Belsen. Marie went with her. Both survived the war.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- textual record
- In the picture
- DocumentHandwrittenLetterLetterheadSignatureTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- Hungarian
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗1997-18-23.jpg