Vendֳ©g Konyo [Guest Book]. Transylvania (printed in Oradea -"Nagyvֳ¡rad"), 1940s.
Thick guest book with leaves divided into tables, designated for registering names and information about people. The book served as a register for a systematic recording of names of Jews, Holocaust survivors, in a certain checkpoint in Transylvania (maybe in Oradea) after the Holocaust. It is possible that it was some kind of a sanatorium or a temporary camp (no definite venue or date are mentioned). The records in the register were entered between July 6 and January 5 and judging by the names and places where people arrived from, it is evident that it was done during the second half of 1945 until the beginning of January 1946, when World War II ended and the Jews of Transylvania returned to their homeland.
Information, meticulously entered, includes: serial number, date (day and month), first name and family name, name of place where the person came from, place of birth, destination and number of days the person stayed in this place.
The register consists of 861 pages. Details of six people were entered on each page; the book, therefore, includes detailed records about 5166 Holocaust survivors. Amongst the names of places where people came from are names of concentration and labor camps, names of cities and of temporary Displaced Persons camps: Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, Lenzing, Stutthof, Nordhausen (Dora-Mittelbau), Linz, Magdeburg, Waldenburg, Leipzig, Danzig, Lodz, "Alten Camp", "Welden Camp", Kratzau (Chrastava), Pozsony, Feldfing, Spandau and more.
1000 pp, (861 written), 30.5X21.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and stains to first and last leaves. Cardboard and cloth binding - worn, fair-good condition.