Abraham Spiegel papers

Identifier
irn515517
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.546.1
Dates
1 Jan 1928 - 31 Dec 1954, 1 Jan 1928 - 31 Dec 1972
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • German
  • English
  • Hebrew
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515517

Extent and Medium

box

1

Creator(s)

  • Abraham Spiegel

Biographical History

Abraham Spiegel (1906-2004) was born in Munkács, Hungary (Mukacheve, Ukraine) to sawmill owner Henrik (Haim) Spiegel and his wife, Fani Weiser. He married Edita (Eta) Rosenwasser (1916-1999) from Bardejov (Slovakia) in 1940. In 1944 they were deported to Auschwitz with the entire Spiegel family, and their two year old son Uziel (Oscar) and Edita’s mother were killed in a gas chamber. Abraham survived Auschwitz, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and a death march. He was reunited with his wife after the war, they had son Thomas in 1946, immigrated to the United States in December 1947, settled in California, and had daughter Rita in 1948. Abraham Spiegel became a prominent real estate developer, formed Columbia Savings & Loan, and was a major philanthropist.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rita Spiegel donated the Abraham Spiegel papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.

Scope and Content

The Abraham Spiegel papers consist of biographical materials documenting the Spiegel family, originally from Munkács (formerly Hungary) and Bardejov (Slovakia). Records include birth, marriage, and death certificates, residency and citizenship documents, and immigration and naturalization records. The papers particularly reflect the Spiegel family’s efforts to document their Hungarian citizenship to avoid deportation as Jewish non-citizens following the border realignments of the First Vienna Award in 1938 as well as Abraham’s immigration to the United States in 1947 with his wife and son.

System of Arrangement

The Abraham Spiegel papers are arranged as a single series.

People

  • Abraham Spiegel

Subjects

  • Bardejov (Slovakia)
  • United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
  • Citizenship--Hungary.
  • Mukacheve (Ukraine)
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Mukacheve.
  • Jews--Slovakia--Bardejov.

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.

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