us-005578-irn548833
date: circa 1905-1954
type: RecordSet
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record resource structure: Arrangement is thematic.
has or had holder: us-005578
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identifier: irn548833
has record set type: Item
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
title: George and Shari Fine collection
scope and content: Contains pre-war photographs of the Fingerhut family (George Fine's family) from Siauliai, Lithuania, and of the Marmor family (Shari Fine's family) of Bistrita, Romania. Includes postwar identification cards issued to the donors and immigration paperwork documenting Shari Marmor's immigration to Canada. Also includes playbills, posters, songbooks, and other materials documenting Yiddish theatrical productions in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, in which Shari Marmor performed. Some materials, including a Passover Haggadah, are from the Foehrenwald DP Camp.
record resource extent: folders oversize folder 2 1
biographical history: Sari Sheindl Marmor was born on April 1, 1927, in Bistrita, (Bistrița-Năsăud), Romania. Her parents, Salomon and Ita Karpeles, owned a general store. Shari had six siblings: Josef, b. 1912, Hershl, b.1922, Ester, b.1924, Chaya (Helen), b.1925, Itzhak, b. 1929, and Shmaye, b.1932. Hungary was under the influence of Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s and in November 1940, they joined the Axis Alliance. Racial laws, much like Germany’s Nuremberg laws, were enacted; Jews, who had been full citizens of Hungary since 1867, were stripped of their civil rights and excluded from many professions. Jewish males were obligated to serve in forced labor battalions. After Hungary entered the war in 1941, most of these battalions were involved in dangerous war-related construction work under brutal conditions. In 1943, Shari’s brother, Josef, was taken for a forced labor brigade; her brother, Hershl was taken in 1944. In March 1944, the Bistrita Jews were forced into a ghetto. And in April, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. They were held for a while in an open field, then she, Chaya, and Ester were separated from her parents and youngest brother. The girls were selected for forced labor and told to go right; her parents and brother were selected for death and told to go left. Sari was tattooed with number A18731. They were assigned to Birkenau IIb near the Kanada warehouse, where the property of the victims was sorted for shipment to Germany. The sisters were transferred to Płaszów concentration camp, but later were returned to Auschwitz block 36. In September 1944, Shari was transferred to a camp near Stuttgart, where she worked in the machine shop of an underground Luftwaffe Nachschublager [Air Force supply depot]. In March 1945, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners were forced on a death march. They were liberated by the United States Army near Füssen, Germany on April 29, 1945. Shari and her sisters were taken to the Feldafing displaced persons c…