Overview
- Description
- Consists of a copy of a 47-page French-language typescript entitled "Memoires pour mes petit-enfants (Memoirs for My Grandchildren)" by Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn. The memoir, which is dated July 1985, describes the author's early life in Hungary. He attended school at the Sorbonne then entered his family's furrier business. He describes increasing antisemitism in Hungary beginning in the mid-1930s, slave labor, deportations, Soviet liberation, deportation to the Ukraine, and life in postwar communist Hungary until the 1956 revolt and his escape to France in the following year. The memoir includes photocopies of photographs showing family members, classmates, and fellow slave laborers.
- Subtitle
- Memoirs for my grandchildren
- Date
-
creation:
1985 July
- Collection Creator
- Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn
- Biography
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Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 4 Jan. 1912. After being educated in economics, he joined the family furrier business in Budapest. He was forced into slave labor by the Germans and was later forced to go to the Ukraine after liberation by the Red Army. He was permitted to return to Budapest in Oct. 1945. In 1957 Bokshorn fled with his family to France.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Personal Narratives.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors. Antisemitism. Jews--Hungary. Communism. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary. Genealogy.
- Geographic Name
- Budapest (Hungary) Ukraine. Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- Personal Name
- Bokshorn, Sandor (Alexandre) Boico, Annick. Boico, Andre.
- Corporate Name
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Annick Boico
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Annick Boico in 1991.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 13:13:23
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