Eva VonAncken family collection

Identifier: irn50831
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn50831

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Eva VonAncken.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a teddy bear, a stuffed rabbit, and photographs relating to the experiences of Éva Erszébet Kiss, her parents Istvan and Lilian Brichta Kiss, and the extended Kiss, Brichta, and Benko families before the Holocaust in Pecs and Szeged, Hungary, and during the Holocaust, when Eva and Lilian were interned in Szeged ghetto, Strasshof labor camp in Austria, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in Czechoslovakia, and after the war when they returned to Hungary.

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Benko, Brichta and Kiss Families photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn60756
- English
- 1938-1943
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Collection of family photographs documenting the experiences of the Benko, Brichta, and Kiss families during Holocaust era in Hungary, circa 1938-1943.
Much loved teddy bear given to a Hungarian Jewish girl after her return from Theresienstadt
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn60757
- English
- overall: Height: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Depth: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Much loved, golden brown plush teddy bear given to Éva Erszébet Kiss, around age 4, after she and her mother returned to Pecs, Hungary, from Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in May 1945. The bear resembles Steiff bears of the period, with the center stomach seam and the mohair-like plush, but its origins are unknown. When Éva was born to Istvan and Lilian in Pecs in 1941, Hungary was controlled by a fascist regime with anti-Jewish legislation like that of their ally, Nazi Germany. Her father was conscripted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940, leaving her mother to run their wooden bli...
Stuffed rabbit made for a young Hungarian Jewish camp inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn60758
- English
- overall: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Depth: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Large, handmade, stuffed bunny made for 4-year-old Éva Erszébet Kiss. This bunny was crafted by a woman inmate when Éva and her mother were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in spring 1945. When Éva was born to Istvan and Lilian in Pecs in 1941, Hungary was controlled by a fascist regime with anti-Jewish legislation like that of their ally, Nazi Germany. Her father was conscripted into the Hungarian labor service in 1940, leaving her mother to run their wooden blind manufacturing business in Szeged. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary. That April, Lilian and Éva were forced...

Eva VonAncken family collection

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Benko, Brichta and Kiss Families photographs

Much loved teddy bear given to a Hungarian Jewish girl after her return from Theresienstadt

Stuffed rabbit made for a young Hungarian Jewish camp inmate