My maternal grandfather, Adolf Neu, with his children in a photo taken in Budapest in the 1880s.
I did not know my grandfather. I know that he must have been a man of progressive thinking, because he educated my mother. My mother was a diamond cutter.
My grandfather had three children. My mother had a younger brother, Bela Neu, who killed himself. She also had a younger sister, who got married. They obtained very good information about the husband - it seems that it was fashionable at that time to get information about the intended. The only thing that was never mentioned was that he had TB. He infected his entire family: the children and his wife, and they all died. My mother also had another sibling who emigrated to America and was never heard of again.
Klara Karpati's maternal grandfather, Adolf Neu, with his children
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