Certificate of Employment
Object numberM2007/068:002
TitleCertificate of Employment
DescriptionCertificate of employment for Imre Kaldor, dated 12 May 1944, stating that he was a timber merchant in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1944. It is signed by David Balog, his employer, whose family now lives in Sydney. The certificate is typed, in Hungarian, on a half sheet of the company's stationery.
Imre Kaldor was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1899 to Jeno Moses Kohn (later Kaldor) and Karolina (nee Lustig). He was married to Rose (nee Czeizler) and together they had one daughter, Kathy.
After the Germans’ entry into Hungary in 1944, Imre, Rose and Kathy were expelled from their home and confined to a ghetto. They were eventually placed on cattle cars and sent to a forced labour camp in Florisdorf. In February 1945 in the wake of the Allied advance, they were sent along with 200 others on a death march from the camp. They managed to escape and hide out in a nearby village until the end of the war. They discovered later that the Florisdorf prisoners who continued on the march were executed in the forest.
The family returned to Budapest only to find that their house had been destroyed. Kathy married George Polgar and migrated to Australia in 1949. Rose and Imre followed accordingly in 1951. The family was very happy in Sydney, but Imre was ill and died in 1952. In the following years, Rose married Paul Visontay, who had migrated from Hungary to Australia with his son, Ivan. It was a great coincidence that Rose and Paul crossed paths in Sydney as the two had briefly dated in Hungary in the 1920s when Rose was 16 and Paul was 20.
This certificate is part of a collection of objects and documents donated by Holocaust survivor Ivan Visontay relating to his family and that of his stepmother Rose.
Imre Kaldor was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1899 to Jeno Moses Kohn (later Kaldor) and Karolina (nee Lustig). He was married to Rose (nee Czeizler) and together they had one daughter, Kathy.
After the Germans’ entry into Hungary in 1944, Imre, Rose and Kathy were expelled from their home and confined to a ghetto. They were eventually placed on cattle cars and sent to a forced labour camp in Florisdorf. In February 1945 in the wake of the Allied advance, they were sent along with 200 others on a death march from the camp. They managed to escape and hide out in a nearby village until the end of the war. They discovered later that the Florisdorf prisoners who continued on the march were executed in the forest.
The family returned to Budapest only to find that their house had been destroyed. Kathy married George Polgar and migrated to Australia in 1949. Rose and Imre followed accordingly in 1951. The family was very happy in Sydney, but Imre was ill and died in 1952. In the following years, Rose married Paul Visontay, who had migrated from Hungary to Australia with his son, Ivan. It was a great coincidence that Rose and Paul crossed paths in Sydney as the two had briefly dated in Hungary in the 1920s when Rose was 16 and Paul was 20.
This certificate is part of a collection of objects and documents donated by Holocaust survivor Ivan Visontay relating to his family and that of his stepmother Rose.
Production placeDebrecen, Hungary
Production date 1944-05-12
Subjectemployment
Object namecertificates
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 227.00 mm
height: 145.00 mm
Language
- Hungarian
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Ivan R Visontay
Documentation
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