Meitner family photograph collection

Document | Accession Number: 2013.92.1

Collection of photographs depicting Arpad Meitner and Berta Mahler Meitner before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

Date: undated:
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Deszö Meitner

Document Creator: David Meitner
Biography: Berta Mahler Meitner died while giving birth to David Deszö Meitner in March 1933. David’s father, Arpad Meitner, was a typesetter. In 1944 he was forced into Hungarian labor battalions and it is believed that he was executed in Felixdorf, Austria in early 1945. David survived the war and in 1947 David tried to immigrate to Palestine. A few months later he reached Haifa. David served in the Israeli Army and for 40 years.
Geographic Name: Hungary.
Palestine.
Personal Name: Meitner, Arpad.
Meitner, Berta.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: David Meitner donated the Meitner family photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-05-27 12:51:16
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