In September 1947, an L Card was created at the CLI for Béla Mandel, who was born in Subotica (now Serbia) in 1930. His name had reached the CLI on a list with the number S-1016/4. Until his deportation, the underage boy had lived with his parents (Mor and Berta Mandel) in Budapest, was of Jewish faith and a Hungarian citizen. Separated from his parents, Béla Mandel was registered as a DP in the "Donaubastion" DP camp in Ulm after the war and looked after by the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (PCIRO). He applied for emigration to the USA via the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM).

Additional information about Béla Mandel can be gleaned from other documents also held by the Arolsen Archives. His DP 2 card shows that he was a rabbi-student and had already been registered in the Ulm DP camp at the end of 1946. In June 1947, he was also included on a list of the "Jewish Home" camp in Heidenheim an der Brenz as a student at the local rabbi-school. Accordingly, Béla Mandel was also registered by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone (CCLJ) in its central index file.

Géza Mandel (born 1931 in Subotica), who is also named in the "Jewish Home" list, is a cousin of Béla Mandel. Further documents on Géza Mandel are also available at the Arolsen Archives.