This is a photograph of my cousin Ladislav Hecht's wife with her daughter, taken in the 1940s.
The result of the anti-Jewish laws was that 80% of my family ended in the concentration camps.
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". Please contact collection [at] centropa.org.
