"Dinnertime Survivor Tale"

Identifier
irn45493
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.53.1
Dates
1 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2011
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harvy Simkovits

Harvy Simkovits donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2012.

Scope and Content

Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "Dinnertime Survivor Tale," by Harvy Simkovits, originally of Kassa (Kosice). In the memoir, Mr. Simkovits describes his mother describing her Holocaust experiences over dinner and how she survived the war as a Slovak-Hungarian Jew. In 1944, when Germany invaded Hungary, the family moved from Kassa to Budapest, using false papers and posing as non-Jews. She described learning of the deportation of the Jews of Kassa, who were sent to Auschwitz in May 1944. She also described life in Budapest at the end of the war and returning to Kassa (Kosice).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Mr. Harvy Simkovits

Genre

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