Lujza and Bela Wohlwert

This photo was taken at the swimming pool in Presov in the 1930s. My sister Lujza Wohlwert, nee Friedmannova, the first from right, was not yet married, but the man who has his arm around her shoulder is her future husband Bela Wohlwert. He was born in 1905. Before the war he worked as a shop keeper.The other two women are the Ackerman sisters, who were tailors. The other two men don?t look familiar to me. Lujza was the oldest child. She was born in Presov in 1910. Before World War II she finished an accounting course. She was deported to Auschwitz with the last transport in 1942, along with her husband, Bela Wohlwert, and in December, during the last selection, she was sent to the gas chambers. She spent three months in the concentration camp. Her husband was also killed in Auschwitz in 1942.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

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