"My Uncle"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rudi Lichtner
Yisrael Rudi Lichtner donated this manuscript to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Dec. 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of one manuscript, 11 pages, entitled "My Uncle" by Yisrael Rudi Lichtner, written in 2011. In the manuscript,Yisrael describes his childhood in Rome, Italy, and the experience of meeting his uncle David, who spent the war as a Hungarian Jewish prisoner in a Siberian prisoner of war camp. He describes David's experiences searching for any family members who survived the war, finding Yisrael's family, getting married and then being separated from them when the Iron Curtain fell over Hungary. David and his wife were able to reunite with them in 1958 and then immigrated to Israel. Yisrael describes visiting them in Israel and learning more about his uncle's experiences.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Yisrael R. Lichtner
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document