Номер объектаM2002/015:002
ОписаниеThe Military Care Officer of the Royal Hungarian district of Godollo writes to Mrs Miklos Blum on 11 August 1943 that there is no information in regard to her husbands unit: "I am conveying that I have no news of your husband's Unit and thus, I can give you no information."
Miklos and Zsofia Blum married on 6 November 1927. Three documents in the collection are addressed to his wife, the “war widow”, related to her husband's disappearance while serving with
the Hungarian forced labour brigade. Miklos enlisted for auxiliary service on 24 October 1942 and on 27 November he was dispatched to the Eastern front.
Anti-Jewish legislation was passed in Hungary beginning in March 1938 and in the spring of 1942 the Hungarian antisemitic regime began to draft large numbers of Jewish-Hungarian men into forced labour companies – two years before Nazi Germany dispatched troops to Hungary. Over a two-year period, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hungarian troops to the battle zone of the Former Soviet Union. The Hungarian authorities considered these men unworthy of bearing arms, yet demanded they take part in the war against Stalin and his forces. Practically no Jewish-Hungarian family was untouched; many husbands, fathers and brothers never returned, dying from battle, starvation, disease, harsh labour and murder.
Miklos and Zsofia Blum married on 6 November 1927. Three documents in the collection are addressed to his wife, the “war widow”, related to her husband's disappearance while serving with
the Hungarian forced labour brigade. Miklos enlisted for auxiliary service on 24 October 1942 and on 27 November he was dispatched to the Eastern front.
Anti-Jewish legislation was passed in Hungary beginning in March 1938 and in the spring of 1942 the Hungarian antisemitic regime began to draft large numbers of Jewish-Hungarian men into forced labour companies – two years before Nazi Germany dispatched troops to Hungary. Over a two-year period, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hungarian troops to the battle zone of the Former Soviet Union. The Hungarian authorities considered these men unworthy of bearing arms, yet demanded they take part in the war against Stalin and his forces. Practically no Jewish-Hungarian family was untouched; many husbands, fathers and brothers never returned, dying from battle, starvation, disease, harsh labour and murder.
Дата 1943-08-11
Темаforced labour, slave labour, tracing loved ones
Наименованиеofficial correspondence
Материалpaper
Размерность
- whole height: 295.00 mm
width: 210.00 mm
Язык
- Hungarian
The Military Care Officer of the Royal Hungarian district of Godollo No 379., jhg.ti-1943.
Mrs MIKLOS BLUM
Flat 1, 4th floor,
4 Gabona u.
9th district Godollo, 11 August 1943.
I am conveying, that I have no news of your husband's Unit and thus, I can give you no information.
Signed ...?
2nd Lieutenant hg.ti.
-06-18bt
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Peter and Agnes Bloom