- Description
- The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences prewar in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their postwar life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.
Biographical material relating to Yehuda Mande includes original, photocopies, and color copies of restitution material, immigration documents for Palestine and the United States, identification and registration cards from Hungary and Palestine, permits for entry to Palestine, a military book, and a passport.
Cantorial career documents include originals and photocopies of programs, awards and correspondence relating to the Cantors Assembly and Convention, letters of recommendation, education documents, employment contracts, correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, posters, and other documents relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career, mainly in the United States.
Gabriella Mandel papers include biographical material, restitution files, and other documents relating to the Mandel family. The series includes a certificate of nationality, report cards, marriage certificate, application for naturalization, identification cards and passports, restitution paperwork, school and teaching records, a wedding certificate, and birth information relating to Gabriella Mandel. The series also includes an unfilled ballot for the election of representation of the Jewish community of refugees in Switzerland and letters addressed to Gabriella from several individuals, including Julius Sternberg in Montreux, Switzerland. The series also includes documents relating to Moses Mandel, Abraham Mandel (Yehudah’s father), Roza Braun (Yehudah’s mother), and Ilona Krieshaber (Gabriella’s sister).
Miklos family papers include documents relating to Leslie and Livia Miklos. Documents relating to Leslie (Lazlo) Miklos include a certificate of naturalization, medical evaluation notes, certificate of death, and identification cards. Livia (Lilly) Miklos’ documents include an International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union dues card, a passport, and a certificate of naturalization.
Music includes bound notebooks, binders, and loose of sheet music, scores, and musical arrangements relating to Yehuda career as a Cantor, mainly after immigrating to the United States. The binders include handwritten and published music which is believed to have been arranged by Yehuda.
- Date
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inclusive:
1910-2001
undated:
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Emmanuel (Manny) Mandel
- Collection Creator
- Manny Mandel
- Biography
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Emanuel “Manny” Mandel (b. 1936) was born on May 8, 1936 in Riga, Latvia to Yehudah (b. 1904 in Csepe, Ruthenia) and Gabriella “Ella” Mandel (b. 1908 in Kunszentmiklos in Southern Hungary). Shortly after Manny’s birth, Yehudah accepted a post as one of the four chief cantors in Budapest, and the family returned to Hungary, where they had lived before 1933.
In March 1944 the Germans occupied Hungary and deportations began. That summer, Manny, Ella, and Yehudah’s brother David managed to escape Hungary as part of the Kasztner transport Yehudah was away on a forced labor deployment and could not go with them. In June 1944, Manny and his mother were deported to Bergen-Belsen. They remained in Bergen-Belsen for six months until they were released and sent to Switzerland in December 1944. Manny and his mother stayed at the Heiden children's home where Ella worked as a teacher.
In 1945 Manny and Ella immigrated on a British troop ship to Palestine and were placed in Kibbutz Shaar HaAmakim. Yehuda managed to escape from his labor brigade in November 1944 and return to Budapest. There he became a runner for Wallenberg and remained in the city until its liberation by the Soviet Army in February 1945. He reunited with Manny and Ella in 1946 and they immigrated to the United States in 1949. Manny settled in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School, Gratz College, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He practiced as a psychotherapist in Maryland until his retirement in 2014. Manny volunteered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
