DESCRIPTION: A ORTHODOX GEMILAS CHESED ASSOCIATION TZEDAKAH BOX, HUNGARY, CIRCA 1900
Wall mounted / desk placed tin tzedakah charity container of the Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association, Budapest, with a plaque depicting the "Biró Daniel" Orthodox Jewish Hospital.
On the 14th January 1945, a special unit of the Arrow Cross Party Militia raided the hospital. During the attack, approximately 150 patients, doctors and nurses were present at the hospital. Almost all of them were executed, and their corpses were burnt on the spot. The building was later demolished.
MATERIAL: BRASS PLATED
SIZE: 17.7 CM
CONDITION: GOOD
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