Object numberM2020/013:085
DescriptionPhotograph of Beno Deutsch, born circa 1870, murdered in Auschwitz circa 1944. He was the donor's maternal grandfather. He is photographed in a studio, R Goldberger, with a curtain backdrop, holding white gloves and wearing the uniform of a railway worker in Hungary - possibly a stationmaster. The photo would have been taken in the first half of the 20th century.
The embroidered emblem on his cap is the one that was used in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867 – 1918) as well as in the period between the two wars with little change.
Part of a collection of correspondence, documents and photographs relating to Judith Kaldor (nee Nemes) and her parents Mozes and Elizabeth Nemes.
Judith Kaldor (nee Nemes) was born in Budapest, in 1935. Her father was forced to separate from the family in 1941 when he was conscripted into the Hungarian army. In 1942 he was transferred to forced labour on account of his being Jewish and then sent to a forced labour camp in the Soviet Union from 1944.
On 9 March 1944, the Germans invaded Hungary and life for Hungarian Jews “came to an end”. The Nuremberg laws were immediately brought into effect and by the end of June, many properties had been confiscated. Judith lived in a ‘Jewish House’, a place where many families were crammed together. In October, the Arrow Cross, Hungarian Nazi sympathisers, threatened to shoot all the inhabitants. They were only saved by an air-raid alarm.
Judith and her mother fled. After being in another place for three weeks they were taken to the ghetto. As they got there, Judith’s mother suggested that Judith ‘go to aunt Elizabeth’ and so Judith walked out of the ghetto. Her mother escaped by piling spare clothes under her dress to feign pregnancy and convinced the guards she had to go to the hospital. She and Judith were reunited and they survived the war in hiding.
There had been no sign of life from Judith's father since late 1944, but in 1946 Judith’s mother learned that he was alive. Mozes was finally reunited with his family in August 1947. Judith completed her schooling, went to university and studied to be a pharmacist. When the 1956 revolution opened the country, she and her boyfriend, Tamas (Tom) Kaldor, escaped Hungary on foot. Crossing into Austria, they were finally free. Judith and Tom married in Vienna in January 1957, and together they immigrated to Australia, arriving in August 1957.
The embroidered emblem on his cap is the one that was used in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867 – 1918) as well as in the period between the two wars with little change.
Part of a collection of correspondence, documents and photographs relating to Judith Kaldor (nee Nemes) and her parents Mozes and Elizabeth Nemes.
Judith Kaldor (nee Nemes) was born in Budapest, in 1935. Her father was forced to separate from the family in 1941 when he was conscripted into the Hungarian army. In 1942 he was transferred to forced labour on account of his being Jewish and then sent to a forced labour camp in the Soviet Union from 1944.
On 9 March 1944, the Germans invaded Hungary and life for Hungarian Jews “came to an end”. The Nuremberg laws were immediately brought into effect and by the end of June, many properties had been confiscated. Judith lived in a ‘Jewish House’, a place where many families were crammed together. In October, the Arrow Cross, Hungarian Nazi sympathisers, threatened to shoot all the inhabitants. They were only saved by an air-raid alarm.
Judith and her mother fled. After being in another place for three weeks they were taken to the ghetto. As they got there, Judith’s mother suggested that Judith ‘go to aunt Elizabeth’ and so Judith walked out of the ghetto. Her mother escaped by piling spare clothes under her dress to feign pregnancy and convinced the guards she had to go to the hospital. She and Judith were reunited and they survived the war in hiding.
There had been no sign of life from Judith's father since late 1944, but in 1946 Judith’s mother learned that he was alive. Mozes was finally reunited with his family in August 1947. Judith completed her schooling, went to university and studied to be a pharmacist. When the 1956 revolution opened the country, she and her boyfriend, Tamas (Tom) Kaldor, escaped Hungary on foot. Crossing into Austria, they were finally free. Judith and Tom married in Vienna in January 1957, and together they immigrated to Australia, arriving in August 1957.
Production placeSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Subjectvictims of fascism, victims, world that was
Object namephotographs
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 110.00 mm
height: 160.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Judith Kaldor