Deutsch family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Dallos
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Peter Dallos.
Scope and Content
Contains a Schutzbrief (protective document) issued by the Swedish Red Cross in Budapest, Hungary to Maria Klein Deutsch (donor's mother) and her 10 year old son Peter (donor), dated August 21, 1944; five postcards written by Ernö Deutsch from a forced labor camp in 1943 and 1944; two letters written by Maria Deutsch Dallos, in Hungarian, dated November 1945, in which she describes events and losses suffered and in 1977 in which she wrote down her memories since 1937 through the liberation of Budapest and the first few years after the war; and newspaper clippings dated circa 1944.
Subjects
- Budapest (Hungary).
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
- Postcards.
- Personal narratives.