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Gizella Helperin poses with her son Erno.

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    Gizella Helperin poses with her son Erno.
    Gizella Helperin poses with her son Erno.

Erno Helperin worked as a newspaper reporter before the war.  He escaped from slave labor and rejoined his mother.  In April 1944, when he learned that the two of them were about to be deported, he gave his mother poison and then hanged himself.

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    Gizella Helperin poses with her son Erno.

    Erno Helperin worked as a newspaper reporter before the war. He escaped from slave labor and rejoined his mother. In April 1944, when he learned that the two of them were about to be deported, he gave his mother poison and then hanged himself.
    Date
    1942
    Locale
    Simleu-Silvaniei, [Transylvania; Bihor] Romania
    Variant Locale
    Hungary
    Simleul-Silvaniei
    Shamloya
    Somlyo
    Szilagysomlyo
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Elly Berkovits Gross

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Elly Berkovits Gross

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    2008-10-03 00:00:00
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