Adele Szamet Rubinstein collection

Collection of photographs depicting members of the Szamet and Weiss families in Hungary before, during, and after the war in Displaced Persons camps; a collection of documents relating to Adele Szamet’s (donor) life after the liberation from the Mauthausen and Gunskirchen concentration camps, which she survived with her mother, Irene Weiss Szamet. The Szamet family lived in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary; they were forced into a ghetto and later transferred to the Debrecen ghetto; in June 1944 they were deported to the Strasshof camp in Austria and from there to the Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub-camp.