Overview
- Description
- Illustrated Poetic Diary of a Jewish Hungarian forced into Labor Service during WWII. [Budapest]: Unpaginated. [108] loose pages, as issued. Original wrappers, with illustration pasted on front cover. Géza Winter's illustrated poetic diary documenting his personal experiences in the labor service in 1940. Winter was a Hungarian Jew from Budapest, and was enrolled in the service in 1939. In the beginning, his company was serving around Budapest, later they were sent to Transylvania. The following cities are mentioned: Szentendre, Budakalász, Pomáz, Szatmámémeti (Satu Mare), Kolozvár, Krasznabéltek (Beltiug) and Szinérváralja (Seini). Géza Winter reports about the evil circumstances and the violent superiors in an ironic, sometimes comic way. The poems are episodic, not always in chronological order. Typewritten manuscript with 60 original illustrations in ink tipped in. Typed manuscript in Hungarian.
- Date
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1940
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hungarian
- Extent
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1 book enclosure
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- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum does not own copyright to this material. No information about the copyright was included on the Deed of Gift.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020. The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by The Philip and Janet Levin Foundation Family Fund.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this artifact was made possible by The Philip and Janet Levin Foundation Family Fund.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:40:08
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