Lujza Wohlwert and Anusa Abrahamovic

These are my two older sisters Lujza Wohlwert, nee Friedmannova and Anna or Anusa Abrahamovic, nee Friedmannova. The photo was taken in Presov in either 1924 or 1925. Both my sisters worked and supported the family. 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. Anusa was born in 1912, also in Presov. She was good at music and played the violin. She married Sandor Abrahamovic in 1937. He was born in Presov in 1905. Before the war he worked as a shop-keeper. She was killed in Lublin ghetto in 1942 at the age of 30. Anusa and Sandor had a son, Herbert, who was born in Presov in 1938. He was deported to Treblinka, where he died at the age of four.

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