Arpad Stern letter

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1993.44.1

Overview

Description: Contains a Red Cross letter written by Arpad Stern (donor's great uncle) to Salomon Stern (donor's grandfather), December 1943, Rimaszecs, Hungary. Received by Salomon Stern, July 1944, in New York. Form is printed in Hungarian, French, and German, with message written in Hungarian. Text reads: "Dear Róza and Salomon we are well but without shop and income we would like to hear good news from you please write to us Kisses Arpad and Piroska;" Salamon Stern received the telegram months after it was created. Arpad and Piroska Stern perished in the Holocaust. Their two sons fled to Palestine and survived.
Date: 1944 February 04
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Roy Saltman
Collection Creator: Arpad Stern

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Written by Arpad Stern (donor's great uncle) to Salomon Stern (donor's grandfather), December 1943, Rimaszecs, Hungary. Received by Salomon Stern, July 1944, New York, New York. Given to Roy Saltman, 1944. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Roy G. Saltman.