Birth certificate of Peter Reisz's grandfather's sister Julia Breiner

Birth certificate of Julia Breiner, my maternal grandfather's sister. The document was issued in Leled (Slovakia) in 1896. My maternal grandfather had a sister, named Julia. Her parents sent her to Budapest where she worked as a servant in the home of a Jewish family, whose flat she inherited when they left Hungary in 1956. She never married, and lived alone in her flat. When she grew elderly and ill, my mother's sister, Ilona Breiner, moved in with her. When Julia died, my Aunt Ilona went to live with her mother, Grandma, and we got Julia's flat. That is how we could finally move from the flat of my wife's parents in Kispest where we spent five years.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.

Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". 

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