Mandel family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of documents, photographs, and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Yehuda and Ella Mandel and their son Emanuel [Manny]. Collection documents their lives in Riga, Latvia where Manny was born in 1936, and their move to Hungary, where Yehuda was Chief Cantor of the Rombach Street Synagoge in Budapest until 1944, their flight from Budapest on a transport of 1600 Jewish Hungarians [arranged by Rudolph Kastner and the Aid and Rescue Committee] to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and general materials illustrating Yehuda's post-war Cantorial career in the United States. Documents illustrating the experiences of Ilona Krieshaber (donor's aunt). Includes sound recordings.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 and 2019 by Emanuel (Manny) Mandel.