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My father’s younger brother was called Izso Molnar. His name originally was Marmorstein. There were two boys in the family, my father and his brother, and the two boys adopted the name Molnar. They magyarized their name when they were bachelors, unmarried, as soon as they became of age. [Editor’s note: This must have happened in the 1900s.]
This was a kind of custom. That’s why there are so many [Jews with] nice names. They adopted nice names. I don’t know why they didn’t like their [old] name. It was a German name, and if they lived in Hungary, why should they have had a German name, why shouldn’t it be Hungarian?
This was a kind of custom. That’s why there are so many [Jews with] nice names. They adopted nice names. I don’t know why they didn’t like their [old] name. It was a German name, and if they lived in Hungary, why should they have had a German name, why shouldn’t it be Hungarian?
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Romania
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Alice Kosa
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