Schlesinger family documents

Schlesinger family documents 

Schlesinger family documents 

1 folder 

This collection documents the experiences of a Jewish family in Vienna before and just after the Nazi occupation. This includes official correspondence which highlights the increasingly Anti-semitic measures taken by the authorities.

The collection also contains a long letter from Jewish friends of the family, who managed to survive the war years in Hungary. This is a rare and valuable account of the Hungarian Jewish experience during the Nazi era, containing descriptions of life in hiding, deportations, massacres by Hungarian Nazis and life in Budapest in the immediate postwar years.