Hellinger family postcards
Extent and Medium
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1
Creator(s)
- Magda H. Blau
Biographical History
Magda Hellinger Blau was born on 19 August 1916 in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia (Michalovce, Slovakia). After the German invasion she was deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was sent on a death march in January 1945 and was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. After the war she lived in Prague before immigrated to Israel. In 1965 she immigrated to Australia.
Archival History
Bela Blau
Acquisition
The postcards were created by Magda Hellinger Blau and other members of the Hellinger family during the Holocaust. Photocopies of the postcards were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Aug. 1992.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the experiences of Magda Hellinger Blau in the Birkenau concentration camp and the deportation of family members from Czechoslovakia.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is chronological
People
- Hellinger, Artur.
- Blau, Magda Hellinger.
- Hellinger, Ernst.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
Genre
- Document
- Postcards.