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1. Framed, gold-colored plaque depicting a Jewish Hungarian banker
2018.286.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.286.5
Date:
creation: after 1932 April 22-before 1941
… their Pest apartment. In March, German forces occupied Hungary. In April, Hungarian authorities began ordering the Jewish population into ghettos with…
2. Peach nightgown decorated with embroidery owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
…Peach nightgown decorated with embroidery owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman…
3. Knit cardigan with decorative buttons and lining owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
…Knit cardigan with decorative buttons and lining owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman…
4. Pink chemise with corded, floral lace appliques owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman
2018.409.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.3
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
…Pink chemise with corded, floral lace appliques owned by a Hungarian Jewish woman…
5. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
…. Piroska’s memoirs go into great detail about life in Jewish ghettos in Budapest, living undercover as Christians in Kiskunlacháza, and the general…
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 … forced to move into the Jewish ghettos of Budapest. Gustave Balog, cousin of Piroska’s husband Andor Berki, wrote on his experiences prior to the war…
6. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… the community. The Weiler’s were an assimilated but observant Jewish family. The town had a small synagogue for the twenty Jewish families. Fritz…
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 … of Walter Jensen, a German Jewish World War I veteran, actor, and theater director born Walter Jacob in 1887 in Gernsbach who was married to Mina…
7. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
…. Her parents owned a restaurant in Budapest until 1939 when anti-Jewish business laws forced them to close. After Hungary was occupied by the Nazis in…
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 … restaurant in Budapest until 1939 when anti-Jewish business laws forced them to close. After Hungary was occupied by the Nazis in March 1944, they lost their…
8. Wallenfels family papers
2016.319.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1883-circa 2006
bulk: 1938-1949
…Jewish ghettos--Hungary--Budapest.…
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 …. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--History. Jewish ghettos--Hungary--Budapest. Genealogy. Geography: Budapest (Hungary) Genre/Form: Photographs…
9. Camhi and Hirtenstein families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.541.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1984
bulk: 1934-1947
… Jewish ghetto, but she and her sister stayed in a Swiss safe house. Her immediate family survived the war, but her paternal uncle Arnold Hirtenstein’s wife…
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 … Schmiedt, 1917-2005). After the German occupation of Budapest in March 1944, Veronika’s parents were forced into the Jewish ghetto, but she and her sister…
10. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
… moved every few days, aided by members of the underground resistance. In November, a closed Jewish ghetto was created in the area around her father…
11. Kalman Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant family papers
2018.286.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2018.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-2019
… their Pest apartment. In March, German forces occupied Hungary. In April, Hungarian authorities began ordering the Jewish population into ghettos with…
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 … City Savings Bank in Budapest and as a stenographer and reporter for the Ship-utca Jewish Congregation. He was also an active athlete and served in the…
12. Striped tallit worn by two Hungarian rabbis
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 b
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… moved every few days, aided by members of the underground resistance. In November, a closed Jewish ghetto was created in the area around her father…
13. Black robe used by a Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi for everyday services
1990.245.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.15 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
… moved every few days, aided by members of the underground resistance. In November, a closed Jewish ghetto was created in the area around her father…
14. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… moved every few days, aided by members of the underground resistance. In November, a closed Jewish ghetto was created in the area around her father…
15. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
… moved every few days, aided by members of the underground resistance. In November, a closed Jewish ghetto was created in the area around her father…
16. Imre Patai diaries and albums
2000.155 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.155
Date:
inclusive: circa 1924-1995
bulk: 1924-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Imre writes about the daily events of his life in Hungary, events of the war, the siege of Budapest, experiences in an international ghetto, Jewish homes…
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 … daily events of his life in Hungary, events of the war, the siege of Budapest, experiences in an international ghetto, Jewish homes under Swedish…
17. Pick family photograph collection
1999.282.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 1999.282.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1946
…György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was…
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 …’s object collection contains a small suitcase used by the Pick family, a Hungarian Jewish family while living in hiding, March 1944-Janaury 1945 (1999…
18. Katie Altenberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.15.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2008
…Katie was born into a Jewish family in Vienna and resided on an estate called Edmunshof in the state of Burgenland bordering Hungary. Her father…
19. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between…
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 … volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non- Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945…
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  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 7: Diaries November 11, 1944-January 11, 1945, January 11, 1945-March 11, 1945, includes loose material from diaries
  • File 8: Diaries March 11, 1945-June 20, 1945, June 25, 1945-November 5, 1945, Includes loose material from diaries
20. Tarjan family papers
1995.A.0057.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0057.2
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1998
bulk: 1941-1945
… perished, but Ágnes escaped and received a letter of protection issued by the Portuguese consulate in Budapest. She survived in the Budapest ghetto until…
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 … Tarjan. (D804.48 .C56 2004); Transplanted lives : the adventures of young Jewish immigrants from post-Fascist and communist Hungary to the free world…