Bidspirit auction | The Kasztner train, Bergen-Belsen and

The Kasztner train, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz in the archive of one Jewish family of Kolozsvár (Cluj): 68 documents, 1911-1957, of the lawyer Dr. Ernest Fendrich, rescued on the Kasztner train, including his 1942 civil card marked 'Jew', 6 forced labour service passes and the discharge of January 1944, the Hashomer Hatzair veterans' lists from the Caux refugee camp in Switzerland, 1945, the letter of Olga Lengyel, author of 'Five Chimneys', on the selections at Auschwitz, Paris 1945, the telegram searching for his mother murdered in Auschwitz, his handwritten 'Auschwitz' list and a 1946 protocol on a mother's death in Auschwitz - Lot of 68 documents, 1911-1957, from the archive of a Jewish family of Kolozsvár (Cluj, Transylvania), centred on the lawyer Dr. Ernest (Ernő) Fendrich, born 28.10.1911, son of the merchant Adolf Fendrich and Klara. According to the Yad Vashem names database, Dr. Ernest Fendrich and Olga Goidl-Fendrich (born 1910) were prisoners of Bergen-Belsen released to Switzerland on 4.12.1944 with the Kasztner train group ; the mother Klara Fendrich was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 (Page of Testimony filed by Margit Fendrich, Tel Aviv, 1999). The documents: A research report (PDF, 55 pages) prepared by the auction house Congress Habulaim is attached to the lot: a description of every document, images with the key lines highlighted in yellow, a timeline and background; the Auschwitz, Kasztner train and Bergen-Belsen documents open the report. The file is in the documents field of the lot. (1) Romanian Cluj, 1911-1939: birth extract 1911; the 1933 decision of the Cluj Bar admitting him as a trainee with the lawyer Mihail Goldner; Romanian nationality certificate of January 1939, after the revision of the Jews' citizenship under decree-law 169/1938 ; (2) Hungarian rule, 1940-1944: a 1940 certificate of the Mezőkaszony (Bereg) council that Samuel Fendrich paid taxes there in 1875-1880 (the proof of residence demanded of Jews) ; conscription registration 1941; 1941 registration slip ('Israelite', single, lawyer); the 1942 civil personal card with the question 'is he to be considered a Jew under the law?' answered 'Jew', checked on 4.3.1944, two weeks before the German occupation ; residence registrations in Munkács and Kolozsvár 1942; 6 exit and leave passes of labour service company IX/2 at Szatmárnémeti, November 1943 to January 1944; discharge ticket from the service, Szamosfalva 15.1.1944 ; a 1941 notarised translation of the citizenship certificate of the engineer Dr. Sándor Heller and family; (3) Switzerland, December 1944 to 1946: a chit of the Caux refugee camp, 12.4.1945; letters to 'Fräulein Olga Goidl, Flüchtlingslager Esplanade, Caux' from a tailor in Diessenhofen, January and February 1945, about food parcels withheld by the camp management; a letter of Helen Rappaport to Zoltán Moór, Caux 29.12.1944, thanking for the help of 'Hashomer Hatzair' and asking for a warm coat; 3 typed lists of the 'Hashomer Hatzair veterans' of the Bergen-Belsen group, 56 names with birth dates , including 'Dr. Fendrich Ernest 1911' and 'Goidl-Fendrich Olga 1910', with the certification from Caux, 2.3.1945, on the Youth Aliyah of Ágnes Roboz and Péter Klein; a 1945 letter of Dr. István Torda asking to join the 'Gordon circle' with his family's data; a 1945 card from Engelberg about a Gordon circle certificate; the certificate of William Rappard, director of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, 10.3.1945, admitting him as a student; a telegram draft from Lugano, 7.8.1945, to inform families in Budapest that 'Fendrich Ernest and Olga of Cluj are here well' and to ask about 'Fendrich Klara, Cluj' ; a telegram from Košice, 5.8.1945, 'in good health with Feri', signed Rico Fendrich; his letter from Trevano, 13.8.1945, searching for an uncle in America; a letter of Olga Lengyel (Dr. Miklósné Lengyel, 1908-2001, born Kolozsvár, author of 'Five Chimneys') on the letterhead of Dr. Eric Legman, Paris 14.5.1945, describing to Fendrich the selections at Auschwitz and the murder of 'six million innocent people in the 5 crematoria' ; his handwritten list 'Auschwitz (Fendrich)' of 9 relatives and acquaintances deported from Kolozsvár and Nagyvárad ; an Omega letter of 1945; postcards and a cover addressed to him at Castello di Trevano, Canobbio; (4) the Kincs family of Kolozsvár: an Austro-Hungarian Landsturm leave certificate for Samuel Kincs, Nagyszeben 31.5.1918, with its 1938 notarised translation; translations of the 1908 marriage certificate of Samuel Kincs and Sáli Salamon and of the birth certificate of Lipót Kincs, Sibiu 4.5.1909; a HONSZ (war widows and orphans) membership card, Kolozsvár 29.3.1944, in the name of his widow, born 1910: according to Yad Vashem, Lipót Kincs died in a Hungarian labour battalion at Kiev on 14.3.1943, his mother Sarah was murdered in Auschwitz and his widow was released from Bergen-Belsen in 1944 ;