Portrait of an engaged Jewish couple in Cluj.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 15229

Overview

Caption: Portrait of an engaged Jewish couple in Cluj.

Pictured are Jolande Markovits (the donor's sister) and Bela Blau. Blau was on leave from his Hungarian labor battalion. Blau survived the labor battalion and deportation to Auschwitz. Jolande perished in Auschwitz.

The donor, Andre Markovits, who was liberated from Buchenwald, returned to Cluj after the war and retrieved this photo from the photographic studio in which it was taken in 1943. Andre was the sole survivor of his family, who were all deported from the Cluj ghetto to Auschwitz in April, 1944.
Date: 1942 May 28
Locale: Cluj, [Transylvania] Romania
Variant Locale: Klausenberg
Hungary
Kolozsvar
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Andre Mark

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Andre Mark

Keyword: ARMBANDS CLOSE-UPS FAMILIES (WARTIME JEWISH) FORCED LABOR/BRIGADES FORCED LABOR/BRIGADES (HUNGARIAN) JEWS (HUNGARIAN) JEWS (ROMANIAN)
Photo Designation: NAZI SATELLITE STATES -- Hungary -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families/Weddings -- Before the German Occupation