Memoires pour mes petit-enfants Memoirs for my grandchildren
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn
Biographical History
Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 4 Jan. 1912. After being educated in economics, he joined the family furrier business in Budapest. He was forced into slave labor by the Germans and was later forced to go to the Ukraine after liberation by the Red Army. He was permitted to return to Budapest in Oct. 1945. In 1957 Bokshorn fled with his family to France.
Archival History
Annick Boico
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Annick Boico in 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of a 47-page French-language typescript entitled "Memoires pour mes petit-enfants (Memoirs for My Grandchildren)" by Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn. The memoir, which is dated July 1985, describes the author's early life in Hungary. He attended school at the Sorbonne then entered his family's furrier business. He describes increasing antisemitism in Hungary beginning in the mid-1930s, slave labor, deportations, Soviet liberation, deportation to the Ukraine, and life in postwar communist Hungary until the 1956 revolt and his escape to France in the following year. The memoir includes photocopies of photographs showing family members, classmates, and fellow slave laborers.
People
- Bokshorn, Sandor (Alexandre)
- Boico, Andre.
- Boico, Annick.
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
Subjects
- Genealogy.
- Jews--Hungary.
- Ukraine.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Communism.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Hungary--History--1918-1945.
- Antisemitism.
- Budapest (Hungary)
Genre
- Document
- Personal Narratives.
- Photographs.