us-005578-irn720736
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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has beginning date: 1940-01-01
has end date: 1940-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: hun
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn720736
record resource extent: book enclosure 1
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scope and content: Illustrated Poetic Diary of a Jewish Hungarian forced into Labor Service during WWII. [Budapest]: Unpaginated. [108] loose pages, as issued. Original wrappers, with illustration pasted on front cover. Géza Winter's illustrated poetic diary documenting his personal experiences in the labor service in 1940. Winter was a Hungarian Jew from Budapest, and was enrolled in the service in 1939. In the beginning, his company was serving around Budapest, later they were sent to Transylvania. The following cities are mentioned: Szentendre, Budakalász, Pomáz, Szatmámémeti (Satu Mare), Kolozvár, Krasznabéltek (Beltiug) and Szinérváralja (Seini). Géza Winter reports about the evil circumstances and the violent superiors in an ironic, sometimes comic way. The poems are episodic, not always in chronological order. Typewritten manuscript with 60 original illustrations in ink tipped in. Typed manuscript in Hungarian.
title: Géza Winter diary