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Номер объектаM2007/068:001
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Описание1976 self-published autobiography of Rose Czeizler Visontay, who survived the Holocaust in Hungary and Austria. The original text was in Hungarian and was translated into English by Joseph Daniel. The book tells the story of Rose's early life in Hungary, her marriage and daughter and survival during the Holocaust, and finishes with her second marriage and life in Sydney after migrating in 1951.
Rose Czeizler was born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1904. From a young age she nurtured an interest in fashion, moving to Paris in the 1920s to be a dressmaker and later returning home to establish successful fashion salons in Debrecen and Budapest.
After the Germans’ entry into Hungary in 1944, Rose, her husband Imre Kaldor and their daughter 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, where Rose was assigned to a work detail repairing bomb-damaged houses in Vienna. 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. Rose 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. Rose managed to reclaim and successfully re-establish her fashion salons, but when Kathy moved to Australia, 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 book 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.
Rose Czeizler was born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1904. From a young age she nurtured an interest in fashion, moving to Paris in the 1920s to be a dressmaker and later returning home to establish successful fashion salons in Debrecen and Budapest.
After the Germans’ entry into Hungary in 1944, Rose, her husband Imre Kaldor and their daughter 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, where Rose was assigned to a work detail repairing bomb-damaged houses in Vienna. 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. Rose 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. Rose managed to reclaim and successfully re-establish her fashion salons, but when Kathy moved to Australia, 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 book 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.
Место изготовленияSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Дата 1976
Наименованиеbooks
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 140.00 mm
height: 220.00 mm
Язык
- German
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Ivan R Visontay
Documentation
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