Where
Not on the map yet.
- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- March 28, 1944 (indexed as 1944)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Postcard : Paper : handwritten, printed, stamped : Ink : beige, black, green, blue ; Ht: 10,5 cm x W: 14,8 cm
- Scope & content
- 1 page, double-sided horizontal paper. Recto in handwriting of Kalman Weinberger and dated "944.III.28" and at bottom handwriting of Mancika Mandula Weinberger. Verso in handwriting of Mancika, Pali and Ilona Weinberger. At right, in Kalman's handwriting addressed to "Weinberger Gustav / 108/101 msz." in Maroshéviz, Maros-Torda county. At top right in blue ink is the signature of Captain Soós. 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) and Ilona Weinberger (1881-1944). 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 Captain Soós. 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.
- Location
No place found in this description yet.
- Genre / form
- textual record
- In the picture
- DocumentHandwrittenLetterPostcardTagged 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 ↗2014_01_47a.jpg
- imageOpen original at source ↗2014_01_47b.jpg