Ella and Judit Schichtanz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34690
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 8 months ago

Collection consists of 91 photographs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34691
• English
• overall: Height: 116.750 inches (296.545 cm) | Width: 73.500 inches (186.69 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Wedding veil worn by 27 year old Ella Lichtig at her marriage to Lorand Schichtanz on June 18, 1931, in Budapest, Hungary. In 1941, in response to recent anti-Semitic racial laws, Ella and her young daughter, Judit, converted to Catholicism. In March 1944, Hungary was occupied by Nazi Germany. Lorand was drafted into a forced labor battalion and sent to Austria. In October, Ella was ordered to report for forced labor. She avoided registration and went into hiding with Judit. The Mother Superior from the convent where Ella taught music helped them find work as domestics under their false ide...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34692
• English
• overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Tiara worn by 27 year old Ella Lichtig at her marriage to Lorand Schichtanz on June 18, 1931, in Budapest, Hungary. In 1941, in response to recent anti-Semitic racial laws, Ella and her young daughter, Judit, converted to Catholicism. In March 1944, Hungary was occupied by Nazi Germany. Lorand was drafted into a forced labor battalion and sent to Austria. In October, Ella was ordered to report for forced labor. She avoided registration and went into hiding with Judit. The Mother Superior from the convent where Ella taught music helped them find work as domestics under their false identities...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn509503
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 8 months ago

Consists of a police record and a marriage certificate used to establish a false identity.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn524326
• English
• 1944-1946
• folder 1
• Updated 8 months ago

Collection of false documents which were issued to donor's mother, Lorandne Schichtanz, who used the alias Ballo Jozsefne (Szabo Anna) during the war in Hungary. Included is a false birth certificate. The donor and her mother survived the war by converting to Catholicism and then by using false papers hiding in Budapest, Hungary. Donor's mother taught piano in a convent.