Memoirs

Identifier

irn519809

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2001.142
RG-10.207

Level of Description

Item

Languages

Hungarian

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519809

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received this material from Judit Kertész on Aug. 3, 2000.

Scope and Content

Contains the memoir, 138 pages, of a Hungarian professor of pathology, centering on her childhood experience in the ghetto of Szolnok, Hungary, her deportation to Strasshof concentration camp in Austria and subsequently to Bergen-Belsen, and her life after liberation, including the time when she and her family were interned within Hungary as bourgeois elements by the communist authorities.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

People

Balázs, Márta, 1927-1994.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Jewish ghettos--Hungary--Szolnok.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.

Genre

Personal Narratives.
Document

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.