Erwin Markowitz postcard

Identifier
irn503721
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0120
  • RG-39.003.01
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503721

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Erwin Markowitz

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Erwin Markowitz's sister, Sadie, and his parents wrote the postcard in Apr. 1944. They mailed it in 1944 from Nagyberezna, Hungary, to Markowitz who was at a labor camp at that time. Markowitz donated the postcard to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Nov. 1992.

Scope and Content

According to Erwin Markowitz, his mother, father, and sister wrote the postcard and mailed it from Nagyberezna, Hungary, in April 1944. He received it while he was a prisoner in a compulsory labor camp called Ujverbas in Transylvania. According to a translation from the Hungarian provided by Mr. Markowitz, the card reads (on one side), "Last time do I write to you. We travel we don't know where. God wanted that way. We say goodbye to you, lots of kisses Sister Sadie"; on other side, "Many Kisses Your Mother followed by illegible translated word" and "Same greetings kisses your father."

People

  • Markowitz, Sadie.
  • Markowitz, Erwin.

Corporate Bodies

  • Ujverbas (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Nagyberezna (Hungary)
  • Transylvania (Romania)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
  • Labor camps--Hungary.

Genre

  • Document
  • Postcards.
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