Berta Fried papers

Identifier
irn516650
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.61
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516650

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Juan Fried in 1997.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of a postcard sent by Berta Fried, a Hungarian Jewish deportee, from Auschwitz-Birkenau to a Christian cousin in Budapest, Hungary, dated May 28, 1944; a letter from Berta Fried in a hospital in Danzig, Germany, to her children after her liberation from Stutthof concentration camp dated April 1945; and two envelopes sent to Agata Fried in Mukacevo-Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), by her mother, Berta Fried, in Danzig.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camp inmates' writings--Poland--Oświęcim.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany--Danzig.
  • Jews, Hungarian.

Genre

  • Document
  • Letters.
  • Envelopes (Stationery)
  • Postcards.
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