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    Artist

  • Göndör, Bertalan, 1908-1945

    • Title

  • Labour Batallion "Saros Patak" : Firma fuer alle Branchen, May 28, 1944

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : Lead pencil on wove paper ; 4.25" x 5.75" ; 11 cm x 15 cm

  • Date

    1944

  • Summary

    Recto: Inscribed in German across the top. Gondor represents himself, first drawing on a poster attached to a decrepid wall, then to the right he represents himself under the needle of a sewing machine, having his clothes and himself sewn together. A bright window and knapsack are on the left wall. Signature in bottom left, dated in ink, upper right.

    Verso: Postcard addressed to Budapest, no text, dated 44-V-28.

    One of seven postcards written and drawn by Bertalan Göndör to his wife in Budapest during his journey to a forced labor camp in the town of Sárospatak, April 26 to May 28, 1944.

  • Subject

    Forced labor, Hungary

  • Place

    Sárospatak (Hungary)

  • Medium

    Postcards; Drawings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Bertalan Gondor was born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary. He studied art in Budapest and Vienna. Bertalan was Emery Gondor's brother. After the Hungarian White Terror (1919-1920), he moved from Budapest to Vienna. Bertalan finally returned to Budapest once Austria was annexed in 1938. There he worked as an artist and an illustrator. During World War II, he was deported and conscripted into forced labor service in eastern Hungary. In March of 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and took control of the Hungarian ghettos and camps. Bertalan was then deported to Poland and placed in a camp called Harka. He died in March 1945 in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.

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Göndör, Bertalan: Labour Batallion "Saros Patak" : Firma fuer alle Branchen, May 28, 1944, Leo Baeck Institute, 91.4d.