Miklos Szalay papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Miklos Szalay
Biographical History
Miklos Szalay was born in 1924 in Adve, Hungary. He and other family members protected a downed American flyer who was Jewish during the Nazi-occupation of Hungary. He later immigrated to the United States.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The donor collected the originals of the materials from his personal correspondence and additional unknown sources. He made photocopies available to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department, apparently in 1992, and that department passed them on to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives ca. July 1992, presumably retaining copies in its own departmental files.
Scope and Content
Contains information about Miklos Szalay and the role he and his family played in hiding and protecting a downed Jewish-American airman and a Jewish escapee from a labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Silverstein, Arnold.
- Szalay, Miklos.
- Regenyi, Ferenc, Mrs.
- Kraus, Julius.
- Szalay, Josef.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Air Forces
- Forced Labor camp (unspecified) (ushmm)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Nagycenk (Hungary)
- Jews--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Hiding places.
- Concentration camp escapes--Hungary.
- Labor camps.
- Jews--United States--History--20th century.
- Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary.
- Forced labor.
Genre
- Document