View of the Kertesz shoe store in Kosice, Slovakia, owned by the Jewish businessman, Samuel Kertesz.
Overview
- Caption
- View of the Kertesz shoe store in Kosice, Slovakia, owned by the Jewish businessman, Samuel Kertesz.
Samuel Kertesz, who is the maternal grandfather of Eva (Halmos) Kuhn, perished in Auschwitz in 1944. - Date
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1920 - 1930
- Locale
- Kosice, [Slovakia] Czechoslovakia
- Variant Locale
- Kassa
Hungary
Kaschau
Slovakia - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eva Halmos Kuhn
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Eva Halmos Kuhn
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Eva Kuhn (born Eva Halmos) is the daughter of László and Katarina (Kertesz) Halmos of Kosice, Slovakia. Her father, who studied medicine at the Charles University in Prague, had an obstetrics practice in Kosice. During the war Dr. Halmos was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion, where he perished in 1943. Eva, who was an infant at the time, escaped with her mother to Budapest just before the last deportation transport left Kosice in June 1944. They survived together in hiding in Budapest at the home of Magda Balazs (now Palos). After the war Eva returned to Kosice with her mother, but Katarina soon became ill with hepatitis and died in 1946.
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- 2004-04-05 00:00:00
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