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Portrait of an engaged Jewish couple in Cluj.

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    Portrait of an engaged Jewish couple in Cluj.
    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.

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    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

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Andre Mark

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    2002-12-12 00:00:00
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