us-005578-irn45493
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: Mr. Harvy Simkovits
has beginning date: 2011-01-01
has end date: 2011-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 686
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn45493
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled"Dinnertime Survivor Tale" by Harvy Simkovits, originally of Kassa (Kosice). In the memoir, Mr. Simkovits describes his mother describing her Holocaust experiences over dinner and how she survived the war as a Slovak-Hungarian Jew. In 1944, when Germany invaded Hungary, the family moved from Kassa to Budapest, using false papers and posing as non-Jews. She described learning of the deportation of the Jews of Kassa, who were sent to Auschwitz in May 1944. She also described life in Budapest at the end of the war and returning to Kassa (Kosice).
title: "Dinnertime Survivor Tal"