Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers

Lajos Kenéz was born in 1888 as Ludovic Klein in Nagybajom, Hungary, and changed his name to Lajos Kenéz in Budapest in 1907. He received his degree as doctor of medicine in Budapest in June 1913. In July 1913, was assigned as a doctor to a hospital in Oradea (“Spitalul de Copii ‘Starovesky’”), and from October 1914 until 1918 he was assigned to military hospitals in Budapest and Rozsahegy. Returning to Nagyvarad (Oradea), he practiced medicine there for many years.

Andor Gergely was born in Oradea, Romania (Nagyvarád, Hungary) in 1912 to Armin Gergely and Margit Rosenfeld. He studied medicine in Poitiers, France in the 1930s and practiced gynecology in Oradea. He was stripped of his medical license following the Hungarian re-occupation of Oradea in 1940 and fought legal battles and obtained testimonials to his character to try to continue his practice. Following the German invasion of Hungary, he was moved to the Oradea ghetto, deported to Auschwitz, and spent time in Oberwüstegiersdorf and Wolfberg before his liberation from Wüstewaltersdorf. He married Edith Kenéz, daughter of Lajos Kenéz, and emigrated to Israel.