Yosef Yeger collection
Extent and Medium
boxes
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yosef Yeger
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Yosef Yeger.
Scope and Content
Contains photographs, copyprints, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and two copies of a manuscript relating to the Holocaust experiences of Alexander Shoni Jeger (donor's father; b. October 30, 1930 near Bacău, Romania). In 1942, his mother, Ettel Leida (nee Katz) Jeger, took her two sons, Sandor and Marton (b. July 12, 1933) to Budapest, where she worked as a cook. In 1944 she was taken to a train station for deportation, but when she fainted she was taken to hospital. Both children were in the ghetto. Ettel and her sons survived.
Subjects
- Romania.
Genre
- Newspaper articles.
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Letters.