Schultz and Bodnar families papers
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Anita Skolnick, Peter Bodnar, and Paul Bodnar.
Scope and Content
Documents, photographs, and correspondence, related to the experiences of Zoltan Schultz, originally of Budapest, Hungary, who was imprisoned by the Germans during World War II and killed during a forced march in Austria in April 1945. Material includes identification documenst, and a packet of documents and photographs found with Schultz's remains when he was reinterred by personnel of the U.S. Army in late 1945, and retained by Austrian police officials until they were returned to Schultz's family in 2015, along with the original Austrian police report concerning the circumstances surrounding his reburial in 1945. Also included are photographs, documents, and and related materials concering the experiences of Schultz's extended family, including his sister Edith Schulz Bodnar, who had immigrated to the United States in 1939.
Genre
- Collection