György Ránki collection

Identifier
irn610257
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.461.1
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn610257

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mrs. György Ránki

Mrs. György Ránki donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010. The collection forms part of the Tziporah Wiesel collection on the fate of Hungarian Jewry.

Scope and Content

Consists of color copies of materials related to György Rosenberg (later György Ránki), who was fourteen years old when he was deported from Budapest. The collection includes copies of the note he threw from the train addressed to his father; identity papers he received after his liberation in Lübeck, Germany, and later in Sweden; a Red Cross search card; and other documents.

People

  • Ránki, György.

Subjects

  • Budapest (Hungary)

Genre

  • Identity cards.
  • Document
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