Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Hungarian bible used in Dachau, Germany, following liberation.
- Title
- Bible
- Date
-
publication:
approximately 1945-1950
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Don Lengyer
- Markings
- title page, recto: center, (black) ink stamp, "Tolnay"; page 294, lower left corner, (black) ink stamp, "Tolnay"
Physical Details
- Language
- Hungarian
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
-
Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
-
Bible (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- black hardcover cover with red dyed page edges; title page reads, "SZENT BIBLIA/AZAZ:/ISTENNEK/O ES UJ TESTAMENTOMABAN/FOGLALTATOTT EGESZ/SZENT IRAS./MAGYAR NYELVRE FORDITTATOTT/KAROLI GASPAR/ALTAL./BUDAPEST./KIADJA A. BRIT ES KUELFOELDI BIBLIA-TARSULAT./1893/HUNG. B. SM. 80"
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, adhesive
- Inscription
- second blank page, recto: upper right corner, in pencil, J.S.-ni"; (entire page) in black ink, "Johann v. Tolnay./Kreiskrankenhaus./13b. Dachau/U.S. Zone. Oberbayern./Deutschland./Abs.: dr Tolnay Sranme [sp?]/Budapest u. Rippl-[illegible]"
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The bible was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Don Lengyer.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-20 09:15:58
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11337
