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[it-IT]Record tools[it-IT] [it-IT]Displays[it-IT]	Remove from selection Add to selection Numero oggettoM2019/067:004 DescrizioneSilk scarf worn by Ilona Gardos and later her daughter Vera Seder. Vera remembered that Ilona was always well dressed and wore this scarf all the time. On the day she was captured, she left it behind with Vera who was in hiding with her nanny, Maria. Vera said of the scarf, “I wore it lots of times and it was as if she was there with me. I know for sure my mother touched it, so it was part of her”. Vera was born in Budapest, Hungary on 7 November 1934 to Laszlo and Ilona. For the better part of the war, the Gardos family managed to live peaceably at 21 Szemere Street. However, a few months before her tenth birthday in 1944, Laszlo was arrested and sent to the Taksony slave labour camp. He managed to send Vera a birthday card, which was the last time she ever heard from him. Vera and Ilona moved into a house paid for by the Swedish Red Cross, but they were soon evicted and deported to the Jewish ghetto in Budapest. They tried to stay out of sight and quiet, often hiding in a bunker. On 21 December 1944, Ilona was arrested while trying to visit her parents. She was taken to the banks of the river Danube and shot. Vera managed to find her way to her grandparents and her cousin Lorant, with whom she lived through to the end of the war and afterwards. On 27 May, 1956, she married Laszlo Szederjesy. They left together following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, travelling via the Hungarian Refugee Assisted Scheme, arriving in Sydney. Luogo di produzioneBudapest, Hungary Data circa 1930 Soggettoghettos, hiding, child survivors, Remembrance Nome oggettoscarfs Materialesilk Dimensioni width: 690.00 mm height: 690.00 mm Linea di creditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Vera Seder

Numero oggettoM2019/067:004

DescrizioneSilk scarf worn by Ilona Gardos and later her daughter Vera Seder. Vera remembered that Ilona was always well dressed and wore this scarf all the time. On the day she was captured, she left it behind with Vera who was in hiding with her nanny, Maria. Vera said of the scarf, “I wore it lots of times and it was as if she was there with me. I know for sure my mother touched it, so it was part of her”.

Vera was born in Budapest, Hungary on 7 November 1934 to Laszlo and Ilona. For the better part of the war, the Gardos family managed to live peaceably at 21 Szemere Street. However, a few months before her tenth birthday in 1944, Laszlo was arrested and sent to the Taksony slave labour camp. He managed to send Vera a birthday card, which was the last time she ever heard from him.

Vera and Ilona moved into a house paid for by the Swedish Red Cross, but they were soon evicted and deported to the Jewish ghetto in Budapest. They tried to stay out of sight and quiet, often hiding in a bunker. On 21 December 1944, Ilona was arrested while trying to visit her parents. She was taken to the banks of the river Danube and shot.

Vera managed to find her way to her grandparents and her cousin Lorant, with whom she lived through to the end of the war and afterwards. On 27 May, 1956, she married Laszlo Szederjesy. They left together following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, travelling via the Hungarian Refugee Assisted Scheme, arriving in Sydney.

Luogo di produzioneBudapest, Hungary

Data circa 1930

Soggettoghettos, hiding, child survivors, Remembrance

Nome oggettoscarfs

Materialesilk

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Linea di creditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Vera Seder

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