Black metal typewriter with case used by a Hungarian rescuer to forge documents

Eugenia Blau Szamosi was born in the Transylvania region of Romania, in 1914. She was educated in Budapest, Hungary, where she met Lazlo Szamosi in 1939. Eugenia and Lazlo married in 1941. By the time the Germans took over power in Ocober 1943 in Hungary, Eugenia and her husband were active in the resistance in Budapest. She worked with the International Red Cross, and later with the Spanish Consulate, forging papers that would protect Jews from deportation. She and her husband were assisted in these efforts by both Giorgio Perlasca and Raoul Wallenberg.