Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs

Madeline Krauthammer (1923-2017) was born Magda Wilder on May 20, 1923 in Jasiňa, Czechoslovakia (Körösmező, Hungary; Yasinia, Ukraine) to Markusz Wilder and Sari Maromoros. She had two sisters, Helen (later Friedman) and Regina (later Kronenberg). The three sisters survived Auschwitz, Gelsenkirchen, and Sömmerda. They were liberated during a death march towards Theresienstadt. Krauthammer’s boyfriend, Sigmund Krauthammer (1921-2007), was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovkai (Beregszász, Hungary; Berehove, Ukraine). He survived a forced labor battalion and escaped from the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, Madeline and Sigmund reunited and were married in Beregsasz (Berehovo/Berehove). The Krauthammer’s waited in Paris until they could immigrate to the United States. They sailed aboard the S.S. Washington from Le Havre and arrived in New York on January 31, 1951. The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs depict Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer in Körösmező and Beregszász, Hungary (now Yasinia and Berehove, Ukraine) just before the Holocaust in Hungary and on their wedding day in August 1945.