Engagement portrait of Geza Friedman and Marta Wohlmuth.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 28967

Date: 1939 April 12
Locale: Kosice, [Slovakia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Kassa
Hungary
Kaschau
Slovakia
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Bohemia/Moravia -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Economic Life/Families
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Geza Tatransky

Biography: Geza Friedman (now Tatransky) was born August 3, 1909 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia. He married Marta Wohlmuth in Prague in 1939. On December 1 of that year, Geza was sent to an internment camp in Bratislava. After his release in September 1940, Geza and Marta moved to Kosice, where their son Jiri was born on August 24, 1942. The family secured false identification papers and lived as non-Jews in Slovakia, and later in Budapest. After the liberation Geza changed his family name to Tatransky and moved back to Czechoslovakia.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
ENGAGEMENTS
FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH)
FLOWERS
JEWS (CZECH)
JEWS (HUNGARIAN)
JEWS (SLOVAK)
STUDIO PORTRAITS
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Geza Tatransky
: Record last modified: 2004-04-07 00:00:00
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