Statement of marriage
ObjektnummerM2007/068:022
TitelStatement of marriage
BeskrivelseHandwritten statement from the Chief Rabbi of Derecske, Hungary, stating that no official marriage records were kept in 1835 when the marriage of Lorincz Kohn and Julianna Csillag took place. This statement is dated 26 May 1939, bears a 1 Pengo stamp and an official ink stamp of the Derecske Rabbinate. Part of a collection of objects and documents relating to Imre Kaldor (great-grandson to Lorincz and Julianna), his wife Rose (nee Czeizler) and their families.
Before the Second World War, Imre was employed as a timber merchant and married to Rose. Imre and Rose had one daughter, Kathy. After the Germans’ entry into Hungary in 1944, the family was 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, Imre and Karolina 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.
Before the Second World War, Imre was employed as a timber merchant and married to Rose. Imre and Rose had one daughter, Kathy. After the Germans’ entry into Hungary in 1944, the family was 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, Imre and Karolina 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.
ProduktionsstedDerecske, Hungary
Produktionsdato 1939-05-26
EmneJewish History
Objektnavncertificates of marriage
Materialepaper
Mål
- width: 210.00 mm
height: 345.00 mm
Sprog
- Hungarian
KreditrammeSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Ivan R Visontay
Documentation
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