Leslie Aigner photograph collection

Identifier
irn517632
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.131
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517632

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Leslie Aigner

Leslie (Laszlo) Aigner donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of three photographs of Leslie (Laszlo) Aigner with his immediate family in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, in May 1944. Soon afterwards, Leslie was deported to Auschwitz where his mother and little sister, Marika, were murdered, was transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and was liberated from Dachau. His father and sister, Elisabet, were taken to a forced labor camp in Hungary, where they survived the war. In the photographs, Leslie is wearing the Star of David.

People

  • Aigner, Leslie.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.