Meitner family photograph collection

Collection of photographs depicting Arpad Meitner and Berta Mahler Meitner before the war in Budapest, Hungary. Berta Mahler Meitner died while giving birth to David Deszö Meitner in March 1933. David’s father, Arpad Meitner, was a typesetter. In 1944 he was forced into Hungarian labor battalions and it is believed that he was executed in Felixdorf, Austria in early 1945. David survived the war and in 1947 David tried to immigrate to Palestine. A few months later he reached Haifa. David served in the Israeli Army and for 40 years.