Rudas family collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
2 phonograph records,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Eva Rudas donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 23 Jan. 2002.
Scope and Content
Consists of a photograph, circa 1943, of Istvan Weltman, the donor’s cousin (fourth from left) during his forced labor near Munkacs, Hungary; a photographic portrait, circa 1934, of Bora and Imre Barna with their daughter Anna (Bora and Anna perished in Auschwitz and Imre was killed in a labor battalion); a photographic portrait of the donor’s relatives – Reiner; a photographic portrait of Suzy Barna, who at the age of 5 was killed in Auschwitz in 1944; a photographic portrait, circa 1940, of Gyorgy Kaszas, the donor’s first cousin, a jazz player, who was shot and killed in 1944, after being forced to dig his own grave; and two phonograph recordings of “Kol Nidre” and “Eli, Eli,” dedicated to the victims of WWII and sung by Cantor Josef Rosenblatt.
People
- Barna, Bora.
- Barna, Imre.
- Barna, Suzy.
- Kaszas, Gyorgy.
- Barna, Anna.
- Weltman, Istvan.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.