Tarjan family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection primarily consists of wartime family correspondence between sisters Erzsébeth Steiner and Ágnes Steiner Takács in Budapest, Hungary and their parents Margit and Simon Steiner in Pécs, Hungary from 1941-1944. Some letters include transcriptions and translations provided by Erzsébeth and Tibor’s son Peter Tarjan. Also included in the collection are a personal narrative by Peter regarding his family’s Holocaust experiences, prewar family photographs, and a small amount of documents related to Ágnes. Included in the documents are a prewar address book related to Ágnes’s salon clientele, and a letter of protection issued to Ágnes by the Portuguese consulate in Budapest, 1944. Photographs include depictions of Ágnes, her sister Erzsébeth, and their parents.

Provenance

Peter Tarjan donated the Tarjan family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993, 2018, 2019, and 2020. The accessions numbered 1995.A.0057, 2018.362.1, 2019.284.1, and 2020.27.1 have been incorporated into this collection.