Class photo of a Jewish elementary school. Judith Peto-Lieber is at the far left of the back row.
Overview
- Caption
- Class photo of a Jewish elementary school. Judith Peto-Lieber is at the far left of the back row.
- Locale
- Eisenstadt, Austria
- Variant Locale
- Weniger Maertersdorf
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Judith Peto Leiber
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Judith Peto LeiberSource Record ID: Collections: 1989.250.117
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Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2017-05-09 00:00:00
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