A letter written by Klari Perl Barber, a prisoner in the Kistarcsa transit camp, to her sister, Piroska, in Budapest. In the letter Klari asks her sister to take good care of her son, Karoly, and to have him write to her.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 17196

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Caption: A letter written by Klari Perl Barber, a prisoner in the Kistarcsa transit camp, to her sister, Piroska, in Budapest. In the letter Klari asks her sister to take good care of her son, Karoly, and to have him write to her.

[Translation from Hungarian]: "Little Piri [Piroska], take good care of Karcsi [Karoly]. My heart is aching for him. Kisses to all, and take good care of yourselves. Write if it's at all possible. I believe it's permitted to write at the end of every month. Many kisses, Klari. My little Karcsi, write!"
Date: January 1944 - March 1944
Locale: Kistarcsa, Hungary
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Charles & Herma Ellenboghen Barber

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Charles & Herma Ellenboghen Barber

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORRESPONDENCE/MAIL DOCUMENTS JEWS (HUNGARIAN) KISTARCSA
Photo Designation: NAZI SATELLITE STATES -- Hungary -- JEWS -- Documents

Biography: 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.