Leslie and Eva Aigner collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Consists of an oral history interview conducted by the University of Oregon with Leslie (Les) and Eva Aigner. The Aigners both grew up in Budapest, Hungary; Eva spent the last year of the war in the ghetto in Budapest, while Les was deported to Auschwitz, transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and ultimately liberated from Dachau. They met and married after the war. Also includes photocopies of documentation from the Auschwitz and Dachau memorials related to Les Aigner and a copy of a postcard he sent from Auschwitz.

Provenance

Leslie and Eva Aigner donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.