Ferenc Klopfer papers

Identifier
irn501223
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.A.0047
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501223

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Ferenc Klopfer

Biographical History

Ferenc Klopfer was a medical doctor, who was arrested and deported from Felsoviso, Hungary on May 22, 1944, and sent to Auschwitz. After being assigned to hard labor, he was subsequently sent to Buchenwald, where he worked in a factory. When a kapo had noticed that he was a physician, he was reassigned to the camp hospital. In early 1945, he was sent with other prisoners on a death march to Theresienstadt, where he arrived on April 21, 1945, and he and other inmates narrowly escaped mass execution by the SS, due to the intervention of the Red Cross, prior to the camp's liberation. [Source: Klopfer's unpublished memoir].

Archival History

Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah

Acquisition

Katz, Katalin. Gift, 1995.

Scope and Content

Consists of photocopied documents from Dr. Ferenc Klopfer, including a handwritten memoir of Klopfer's experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt, written in the latter location after liberation in May 1945. A separate text describes in more detail events during the death march from Buchenwald to Theresienstadt in early 1945. Also included is a photocopy of the surviving portion of a list of patients treated by Klopfer in the hospital at Buchenwald, with names of patients, including their birthdates and places of birth, dates of their deaths, as well as diagnoses and causes of their deaths. The originals of these documents are at the Yad Vashem Archives in Israel.

Subjects

  • Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.
  • Jews--Hungary--Biography.
  • Jewish physicians--Hungary--Biography.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives.
  • Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.
  • Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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