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Judith Lieber's class photograph. She is seated in the second row, second from the right.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 17053
Judith Lieber's class photograph. She is seated in the second row, second from the right.

Judith Lieber's class photograph. She is seated in the second row, second from the right.

Date
Before 1939
Locale
Hungary
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Hungary -- School/University/Youth Groups
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Judith Peto Leiber

About This Photograph

Biography
Judith Peto Leiber was born in Budapest to Emil and Helene Peto. When her education in chemistry was interrupted by World War II, she was admitted to the handbag guild in Hungary. She survived the war with her parents and sister, Eva, in Budapest using false papers. After the end of the war she met and married Gus (Gerson) Leiber, an American soldier, sailed with him to America in 1946, and became a famous handbag designer. Meanwhile, her father's brother Zsigmond Scho¨nberger, who had been working in Vienna, fled to Nice with his wife, and they were interned at Drancy and deported to Auschwitz. Emil and Helene Peto moved to Israel after the war.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Judith Peto Leiber
Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.250.116
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-16 00:00:00
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