Medical students examine a cadaver at the Charles University in Prague.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 16727

Date: 1922 - 1928
Variant Locale: Praha
Czech Republic
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Czechoslovakia -- School/University/Youth Groups
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eva Halmos Kuhn

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.
Keyword: CORPSES
GROUP PORTRAITS
INTERIORS
JEWS (CZECH)
JEWS (SLOVAK)
PHYSICIANS
PHYSICIANS (JEWISH)
UNIVERSITIES/STUDENTS/STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Eva Halmos Kuhn
: Record last modified: 2004-04-05 00:00:00
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