us-005578-irn562324-irn515517
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Abraham Spiegel (1906-2004) was born in Munkács, Hungary (Mukacheve, Ukraine) to sawmill owner Henrik (Haim) Spiegel and his wife, Fani Weiser. He married Edita (Eta) Rosenwasser (1916-1999) from Bardejov (Slovakia) in 1940. In 1944 they were deported to Auschwitz with the entire Spiegel family, and their two year old son Uziel (Oscar) and Edita’s mother were killed in a gas chamber. Abraham survived Auschwitz, Fünfteichen, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and a death march. He was reunited with his wife after the war, they had son Thomas in 1946, immigrated to the United States in December 1947, settled in California, and had daughter Rita in 1948. Abraham Spiegel became a prominent real estate developer, formed Columbia Savings & Loan, and was a major philanthropist.
has beginning date: 1928-01-01
has end date: 1972-12-31
has end date: 1954-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: hun
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: ces
has or had some members with language: ron
has or had some members with language: slk
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 904
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn515517
is or was included in: us-005578-irn562324
record resource extent: box 1
record resource structure: The Abraham Spiegel papers are arranged as a single series.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Abraham Spiegel papers consist of biographical materials documenting the Spiegel family, originally from Munkács (formerly Hungary) and Bardejov (Slovakia). Records include birth, marriage, and death certificates, residency and citizenship documents, and immigration and naturalization records. The papers particularly reflect the Spiegel family’s efforts to document their Hungarian citizenship to avoid deportation as Jewish non-citizens following the border realignments of the First Vienna Award in 1938 as well as Abraham’s immigration to the United States in 1947 with his wife and son.
title: Abraham Spiegel papers