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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Emanuel “Manny” Mandel (b. 1936) was born on May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia to Yehudah (Lojos or Lewis, 1904-1994) and Gabriella “Ella” Mandel (nee Klein? 1908-1967?, born in Kunszentmiklós in Southern Hungary), a religious Jewish family. Yehudah served in the Czech Army from 1924-1926. Shortly after Manny’s birth, Yehudah accepted a post as one of the four chief cantors in Budapest, and the family returned to Hungary, where they had lived before 1933. Manny’s father was based at the Rumbach Street synagogue. After the Hungarian state issued anti-Jewish laws in 1938, Jews were rigorously persecuted in Hungary. When it became mandatory for all Jews in Hungary to wear the yellow Star of David, Manny’s father wouldn’t allow his son to have a bicycle, fearing that someone would attack Manny after seeing the star badge affixed to his clothes. Even though Manny’s school was only a few blocks from their home, Yehudah often followed Manny as he walked to school. He was worried someone might push Manny into traffic, as there had been similar incidents in Budapest. Manny was eight when the Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944. Ella heard rumors of impending deportations. Manny, Ella, and Yehudah’s brother David Mandel were among a group of Hungarian Jews whom Adolf Eichmann offered to trade for trucks and other goods in negotiations with Rezsö Kasztner, a member of the Aid and Rescue Committee (Vaada). Like many able-bodied Jewish men, Yehudah had been compelled to join a Hungarian forced labor brigade and was not able to join them. Almost 1,700 Hungarian Jews left Hungary by train on June 30, 1944, with the promise that they would be permitted to exit Nazi-occupied Europe. After difficulties in the negotiations, Manny and his mom and uncle were diverted on a train to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After six months they were taken to Switzerland by Nazi transport, first to a Red Cross hotel near Montreux, and then to a children’s home in Heiden. Manny and his mother st…
has beginning date: 1910-01-01
has end date: 2001-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: hun
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: rus
has or had subject: 42
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has record set type: Item
identifier: irn739862
record resource extent: boxes oversize boxes book enclosures oversize folders 4 18 4 5
record resource structure: The Mandel family papers are arranged as 4 series: Series 1: Yehuda Mandel papers, 1925-1996 Subseries 1: Biographical material, 1926-1996 Subseries 2: Cantorial career, 1925-1993 Series 2: Gabriella Mande papers, 1910-1987 Series 3: Miklos family papers, 1929-2001 Series 4: Music, 1922-1974 and undated Subseries 1: Notebooks, undated Subseries 2: Binder one, 1926-1950 and undated Subseries 3: Binder two, 1922-1954 and undated Subseries 4: Binder three, 1937 and undated Subseries 5: Binder four, 1929-1974 and undated Subseries 6: Binder five, 1930-1960 and undated Subseries 7: Binder six, 1925-1958 and undated Subseries 8: Loose sheet music, undated
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scope and content: The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.
title: Mandel family papers