Születési anyakonyvi kivonat
Object numberM2007/068:018
TitleSzületési anyakonyvi kivonat
DescriptionOfficial extract from the birth registry for Imre Kaldor, who was born 14 February 1899 in Debrecen, Hungary to Jeno Mozes and Karolina Lusztig Kaldor. This birth certificate, in Hungarian, was issued 15 February 1949 in Debrecen.
Before the Second World War, Imre was employed as a timber merchant and married to Rose (nee Czeizler). Imre and Rose 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 the Visontay, Kaldor and Czeizler families.
Before the Second World War, Imre was employed as a timber merchant and married to Rose (nee Czeizler). Imre and Rose 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 the Visontay, Kaldor and Czeizler families.
Production placeDebrecen, Hungary
Production date 1949
Subjectsurvivors, post World War II
Object namecertificates of birth
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 295.00 mm
height: 211.00 mm
Language
- Hungarian
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Ivan R Visontay
Documentation
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