Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs

Identifier
irn37277
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.152.1
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Madeline Krauthammer (1923-2017) was born Magda Wilder on May 20, 1923 in Jasiňa, Czechoslovakia (Körösmező, Hungary; Yasinia, Ukraine) to Markusz Wilder and Sari Maromoros. She had two sisters, Helen (later Friedman) and Regina (later Kronenberg). The three sisters survived Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, and Sömmerda. They were liberated during a death march towards Theresienstadt. Krauthammer’s boyfriend, Sigmund Krauthammer (1921-2007), was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovkai (Beregszász, Hungary; Berehove, Ukraine). He survived a forced labor battalion and escaped from the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, Madeline and Sigmund reunited and were married in Beregsasz (Berehovo/Berehove). The Krauthammer’s waited in Paris until they could immigrate to the United States. They sailed aboard the S.S. Washington from Le Havre and arrived in New York on January 31, 1951.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Madeline Wilder Krauthamer

Madeline Wilder Krauthamer donated the Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009.

Scope and Content

The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs depict Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer in Körösmező and Beregszász, Hungary (now Yasinia and Berehove, Ukraine) just before the Holocaust in Hungary and on their wedding day in August 1945.

System of Arrangement

The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs are arranged as a single file.

Subjects

Genre

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