Bedrich Hecht as a soldier

This is a photo of me from when I was a soldier in the uprising; the photo is from 1944.

My brother and I didn't go to a concentration camp, we went into the uprising [2] and from the uprising to Bratislava and to Hungary. In September 1944 we left for Budapest.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.

Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". 

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