Simai Győrgy photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eva Polgar Simai
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Eva Polgar Simai.
Scope and Content
Contains eight photographs, dated 1939 to 1947, showing Simai Győrgy, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She was arrested and eventually deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then Spandau to perform slave labor, before being transffered to Oranienburg slave labor camp, where she was liberated in May 1945. After returning to Budapest, Győrgy met and married Ference Polgar, ultimately immigrating to Venezuela in 1956 with their daughter Eva.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Eva Polgar Simai
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document