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A letter written by Klari Perl Barber, a prisoner in the Kistarcsa transit camp, to her sister, Piroska, in Budapest.

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    A letter written by Klari Perl Barber, a prisoner in the Kistarcsa transit camp, to her sister, Piroska, in Budapest.
    A letter written by Klari Perl Barber, a prisoner in the Kistarcsa transit camp, to her sister, Piroska, in Budapest. In the letter Klari thanks her sister for sending her a package and for taking care of her son, Karoly. She asks that Karoly write to her "because that will give me the strength to live." Klari also informs her sister that she is allowed to receive two letters a month. [Translation from the Hungarian]: "My dear everyone, I received the package. I am very happy, but I am very lonely. My little Karcsi [Karoly] must write because that will give me the strength to live, if I can read his writing as soon as possible. Kisses to all, and take good care of yourselves, of my little son, and of me too. What's the news about Putyi [nickname]? What's Rozsi doing. Write because it's permitted to write at the end of the month, and on the 15th. Many, many kisses, Klari. P.S. My little Piri [Piroska], please pray."

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    A letter written by Klari Perl Barber, a prisoner in the Kistarcsa transit camp, to her sister, Piroska, in Budapest.

    In the letter Klari thanks her sister for sending her a package and for taking care of her son, Karoly. She asks that Karoly write to her "because that will give me the strength to live." Klari also informs her sister that she is allowed to receive two letters a month.

    [Translation from the Hungarian]: "My dear everyone, I received the package. I am very happy, but I am very lonely. My little Karcsi [Karoly] must write because that will give me the strength to live, if I can read his writing as soon as possible. Kisses to all, and take good care of yourselves, of my little son, and of me too. What's the news about Putyi [nickname]? What's Rozsi doing. Write because it's permitted to write at the end of the month, and on the 15th. Many, many kisses, Klari. P.S. My little Piri [Piroska], please pray."
    Date
    January 1944 - March 1944
    Locale
    Kistarcsa, Hungary
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Charles & Herma Ellenboghen Barber

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Charles & Herma Ellenboghen Barber

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    Charles Barber (born Karoly Barber) is the son of Aladar and Klari (Perl) Barber. Aladar was drafted into a Hungarian labor brigade in the early 1940's and died on January 16, 1945 in the Sopronbanfalva labor camp. Klari was arrested in Budapest in the winter of 1943-1944 and imprisoned in the Kistarcsa transit camp. She was released after several months but was rounded up and deported to Auschwitz in November 1944, where she was immediately put to death. Karoly (Charles) survived the war in a safe house on Erzsebet Korut Street in Budapest. He left Hungary for the United States in 1956.
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