Edward Benedek collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edward Benedek
Edward Benedek donated the materials via Gail Weigl, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in 1992. The Oral History Department transferred them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives later that same year.
Scope and Content
Contains articles, photographs, and various other documents relating to the experiences of Edward Benedek and his wife in Hungary during the Holocaust; their experiences in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944; experiences with antisemitism on a postwar visit to Budapest; and concern about a revival of militaristic nationalism in recently unified Germany.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Benedek, Edward.
Corporate Bodies
- Aszod (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism--Hungary.
- Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- Jewish ghettos--Hungary--Budapest.
- Jews--Hungary--Budapest.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.