Overview
- Description
- Contains information about Miklos Szalay and the role he and his family played in hiding and protecting a downed Jewish-American airman and a Jewish escapee from a labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust.
- Collection Creator
- Miklos Szalay
- Biography
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Miklos Szalay was born in 1924 in Adve, Hungary. He and other family members protected a downed American flyer who was Jewish during the Nazi-occupation of Hungary. He later immigrated to the United States.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Hiding places. Jews--United States--History--20th century. Jews--Hungary--History--20th century. Forced labor. Labor camps. Concentration camp escapes--Hungary. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. Holocaust survivors.
- Geographic Name
- Hungary--History--1918-1945. Nagycenk (Hungary)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The donor collected the originals of the materials from his personal correspondence and additional unknown sources. He made photocopies available to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department, apparently in 1992, and that department passed them on to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives ca. July 1992, presumably retaining copies in its own departmental files.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-23 08:53:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503506
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- Terms of Use
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