Hungary

Background Readings

• History of Jews in Hungary
• Hungary between the Wars
• Yad Vashem: Brief History of the Holocaust in Hungary

Websites Relating Directly to Rosa Freund’s Experience

• Hungarian Labor Service To which Rosa’s father was drafted
• • Budapest
  • Forced Labor
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Jewish Virtual Library: History of Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Remember.org: Virtual Tour of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
• KZ Lenzing-Pettighofen
• This Website sponsored by the University of Linz is in German, but has photos.
• KZ Gusen I, II, and III Concentration Camps

• Lenzing-Pettighofen was also a subcamp of Mauthausen. This Website, in English, focuses on the Gusen subcamps but contains information about the development of Mauthausen as well conditions in subcamps.

• USHMM: Heidenheim Displaced Persons Camp

Other Resources

• Jews in Hungary
• Provides Index of Yad Vashem and other resources’ articles and primary sources
• Women and the Holocaust Bibliography

• Timelines

• Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camps in Austria
• The History Place
• WWII and the Holocaust