Prewar Photographs of the Mandel Family of Munkács

Eight members of the Mandel family were sent to Auschwitz in May 1944. The parents, Yitzcak and Zisel and their six children: Yaacov-Moshe, David, Shmuel-Zvi, Becalel, Yehudah-Aryeh and Malkeh. Only three survived.

Shmuel-Zvi (Sandor) Mandel, born in 1930, in Munkács, 1943 Becalel- Tavji Erno Mandel (born on 21 February 1933) in Munkács, 1944 Ester-Malkeh (Vera) Mandel in Munkács, 1944. Ester was born on 9 February 1938, the only daughter with five brothers. The Mandel family children in the yard of their home in Munkács in 1943, wearing their Sabbath clothes. Top row, left to right: Shmuel-Zvi (Sandor), David (Tibor), Yaacov-Moshe (Yeno Gino). Bottom row, left to right: Ester-Malkeh (Vera), Yehudah (Lajos) and Becalel Erno. David (Tibor) Mandel (right), his brother Yaacov-Moshe (Yino Gino) and their sister Ester-Malkeh (Vera) The Mandel family in Munkács on 3 December 1939. Left to right: Shmuel-Zvi (Sandor), David (Tibor), Zisel (Zsemka) the mother, Ester Malkeh (Vera), Yaacov-Moshe (Yeno Gino), Becalel Erno, Yitzhak Izso the father, Yehudah-Arjeh (Lajos). Most of the family was murdered at Auschwitz.

The mother, Zisel (Zsemka), her children, Shmuel-Zvi (Sandor), Becalel-Tavji Erno, Yehudah-Arjeh (Lajos) and her daughter Ester-Malkeh (Vera) were murdered at Auschwitz.

The only survivors from the Mandel family were the father Yitzcak (Izso) and his two sons, Yaacov-Moshe and David (Tibor).

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