Номер объектаM2018/018:038
ОписаниеHungarian language diary recording Margit Reisz's last few days in Budapest, and her family's migration by sea to Australia. Margit also uses the diary to practise English. First entry dated 26 February 1958, continuing for at least four months.
Margit Reisz (née Herceg) was born on 2 April 1889 in the town of Kolozsvár (present day Romania). Her mother died when she was young, and her father subsequently abandoned his family.
She married 36 year old Ignacz Reisz in 1911, when she was 19. The Reisz family owned farmland, and had became successful businesspeople in the Hungarian village of Kunszentmiklós, south of Budapest. Their family home adjoined the business, and faced outwards onto the village square. Margit handled the accounting for this business, in addition to becoming a talented cook and crochet craftswoman.
The couple had three children – Ilona (b. 1916), Feri (b. 1911) and Emil (b. 1915). The family Hungarianised their name to Rabay at some time in the mid 1930s.
Margit and her husband were arrested and briefly interned in Budapest early on in the war years, falsely accused of making anti-government remarks. After being freed, they stayed at their apartment at 34 Szigony Street in Budapest. They were forced to live in Budapest's compulsory Jewish residences, the "Yellow Star Houses" and managed to survive until the city was liberated in 1945.
Eventually led to flee Communist persecution in the post-war years, Margit moved to Australia with the family of her daughter, Ilona, in 1958. The family opened a restaurant in Melbourne. She suffered from depression until her death in 1963. Margit was particularly traumatised by the wartime deaths of her two sons, who perished in the Jewish forced labour camps.
Margit Reisz (née Herceg) was born on 2 April 1889 in the town of Kolozsvár (present day Romania). Her mother died when she was young, and her father subsequently abandoned his family.
She married 36 year old Ignacz Reisz in 1911, when she was 19. The Reisz family owned farmland, and had became successful businesspeople in the Hungarian village of Kunszentmiklós, south of Budapest. Their family home adjoined the business, and faced outwards onto the village square. Margit handled the accounting for this business, in addition to becoming a talented cook and crochet craftswoman.
The couple had three children – Ilona (b. 1916), Feri (b. 1911) and Emil (b. 1915). The family Hungarianised their name to Rabay at some time in the mid 1930s.
Margit and her husband were arrested and briefly interned in Budapest early on in the war years, falsely accused of making anti-government remarks. After being freed, they stayed at their apartment at 34 Szigony Street in Budapest. They were forced to live in Budapest's compulsory Jewish residences, the "Yellow Star Houses" and managed to survive until the city was liberated in 1945.
Eventually led to flee Communist persecution in the post-war years, Margit moved to Australia with the family of her daughter, Ilona, in 1958. The family opened a restaurant in Melbourne. She suffered from depression until her death in 1963. Margit was particularly traumatised by the wartime deaths of her two sons, who perished in the Jewish forced labour camps.
Дата 1958-02-26 - 1958-06
Темаmigration, survivors, survival, immigration, Post-War Life, ships
Наименованиеjournals
Материалpaper
Техникаhandwritten
Размерность
- height: 195.00 mm
width: 121.00 mm
Язык
- Hungarian
English
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Ester Sarkadi-Clarke