Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate

Josef Blonder was born on June 21, 1926, in Nagyvarad (Oradea), Romania, to Yokheved Makhla and Avraham Blonder. Avraham was born in 1894 in Szarvas, Hungary, to Shlomo; his mother was born in 1896. Josef had an older brother, Barukh, born in 1923, and a younger sister, Lea, born in 1930. On June 7, 1944, the family was deported by the Fascist Hungarian government from Oradea to their German allies who sent the family to Auschwitz concentration camp. His parents and siblings were killed soon after arrival. Josef was transferred to a series of concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and a sub-camp of Mauthausen, Gusen II. He emigrated to the United States after the Holocaust and settled in New Jersey. Belt worn by Josef Blonder throughout his imprisonment at several concentration camps. Eighteen year old Blonder was deported, with his parents and 2 siblings, from Oradea (Nagyvarad), Romania, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. His father, Avraham, his mother, Yokheved, 21 year old brother, Barukh, and 14 year old sister, Lea, were murdered in Auschwitz. Blonder was transferred to, but survived, imprisonment in Mauthausen and its sub-camp, Gusen II. No restrictions on access