Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Madeline Krauthammer
Biographical History
Madeline Krauthammer (1923-2017) was born Magda Wilder on May 20, 1923 in Jasiňa, Czechoslovakia (Körösmező, Hungary; Yasinia, Ukraine) to Markusz Wilder and Sari Maromoros. She had two sisters, Helen (later Friedman) and Regina (later Kronenberg). The three sisters survived Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, and Sömmerda. They were liberated during a death march towards Theresienstadt. Krauthammer’s boyfriend, Sigmund Krauthammer (1921-2007), was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovkai (Beregszász, Hungary; Berehove, Ukraine). He survived a forced labor battalion and escaped from the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, Madeline and Sigmund reunited and were married in Beregsasz (Berehovo/Berehove). The Krauthammer’s waited in Paris until they could immigrate to the United States. They sailed aboard the S.S. Washington from Le Havre and arrived in New York on January 31, 1951.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Madeline Wilder Krauthamer
Madeline Wilder Krauthamer donated the Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.
Scope and Content
The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs depict Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer in Körösmező and Beregszász, Hungary (now Yasinia and Berehove, Ukraine) just before the Holocaust in Hungary and on their wedding day in August 1945.
System of Arrangement
The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs are arranged as a single file.
Subjects
- Jews--Hungary.
- Berehove (Ukraine)
- I︠A︡sini︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.