Overview
- Description
- Contains information about the experiences of Magda Hellinger Blau in the Birkenau concentration camp and the deportation of family members from Czechoslovakia.
- Collection Creator
- Magda H. Blau
- Biography
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Magda Hellinger Blau was born on 19 August 1916 in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia (Michalovce, Slovakia). After the German invasion she was deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was sent on a death march in January 1945 and was liberated by the Soviet Red Army. After the war she lived in Prague before immigrated to Israel. In 1965 she immigrated to Australia.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Postcards.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is chronological
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
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Czechoslovakia. Jews--Czechoslovakia. Holocaust survivors.
- Geographic Name
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Personal Name
- Blau, Magda Hellinger. Hellinger, Ernst. Hellinger, Artur.
- Corporate Name
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Bela Blau
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The postcards were created by Magda Hellinger Blau and other members of the Hellinger family during the Holocaust. Photocopies of the postcards were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Aug. 1992.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:06:47
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503732
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