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In 1896 Adolf Stern wrote a book entitled Tozsde keletkezese es annak
jelentosege [The creation of the stock market and its significance]. This
was a book about the stock market and apart from that he was the author of
many articles published in Hungarian, Slovak and German journals. He was
interested in sociology, he was a specialist in water transport, and in
1933 he wrote a very interesting book entitled Loesung des
Arbeitslosenproblems [Solution of the unemployment problem], which received
a sympathetic response in the journals of Central Europe. He also had many
lectures about his book broadcast on Bratislava Radio.
I would like to add that he regularly corresponded with several important
personalities of the period, namely with Sigrid Undset [2], Nobel Prize
winner in literature, and Gustav Streseman, Chancellor of the Weimar
Republic. Adolf died in Bratislava on 9th November 1934.
My grandfather, Helmut Stern, was born in Opava, when my great-grandfather
was working there. My grandfather attended the Czechoslovak State Trade
Academy in Bratislava from 1922-23. At least two thirds of the students
were of Jewish origin. The only person still alive from his class is Mr.
Marcel Kucera, who is about 90 now. After the war my grandfather worked as
an accountant. Later, due to his illness, he had to retire. He died in
1995.
He married Johanna Brodyova, born in 1903. She was called Janka in the
family. I have a very nice picture of them taken on a holiday in the Alps.
My grandfather, who was deeply devoted to Janka, cut out a miniature
portrait of her and stuck it to a portrait of my grandmother, just where
her heart is. My grandmother comes from Hlohovec, Western Slovakia, and my
grandfather Helmut Stern was born in Opava, Moravia, but the whole family
lived in Humenne, Eastern Slovakia.
jelentosege [The creation of the stock market and its significance]. This
was a book about the stock market and apart from that he was the author of
many articles published in Hungarian, Slovak and German journals. He was
interested in sociology, he was a specialist in water transport, and in
1933 he wrote a very interesting book entitled Loesung des
Arbeitslosenproblems [Solution of the unemployment problem], which received
a sympathetic response in the journals of Central Europe. He also had many
lectures about his book broadcast on Bratislava Radio.
I would like to add that he regularly corresponded with several important
personalities of the period, namely with Sigrid Undset [2], Nobel Prize
winner in literature, and Gustav Streseman, Chancellor of the Weimar
Republic. Adolf died in Bratislava on 9th November 1934.
My grandfather, Helmut Stern, was born in Opava, when my great-grandfather
was working there. My grandfather attended the Czechoslovak State Trade
Academy in Bratislava from 1922-23. At least two thirds of the students
were of Jewish origin. The only person still alive from his class is Mr.
Marcel Kucera, who is about 90 now. After the war my grandfather worked as
an accountant. Later, due to his illness, he had to retire. He died in
1995.
He married Johanna Brodyova, born in 1903. She was called Janka in the
family. I have a very nice picture of them taken on a holiday in the Alps.
My grandfather, who was deeply devoted to Janka, cut out a miniature
portrait of her and stuck it to a portrait of my grandmother, just where
her heart is. My grandmother comes from Hlohovec, Western Slovakia, and my
grandfather Helmut Stern was born in Opava, Moravia, but the whole family
lived in Humenne, Eastern Slovakia.
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