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Grandma had a younger sister in Szatmarnemeti, aunt Mari. She also finished four years of higher elementary school [like grandmother], but she was a very religious woman.
[Editor’s note: It is rather unlikely that Alice Kosa’s grandmother born in 1855 would have attended higher elementary school: higher elementary schools (civil schools called ‘polgari iskola’) were established following the Law on Public Education of 1868.]
She got married to an Orthodox [Jewish] man, and she moved to Szatmarnemeti, the family of uncle Schonberger was from Szatmarnemeti. I suppose this must have been an arranged marriage as well, but she established a family there, in Szatmarnemeti.
They were millionaires, they were wholesaler haberdashers, meaning that they didn’t sell for people, but only to merchants. They had six traveling agents. That’s how it was back then, agents traveled all around the country, and they booked the orders in villages, towns, everywhere.
[Editor’s note: It is rather unlikely that Alice Kosa’s grandmother born in 1855 would have attended higher elementary school: higher elementary schools (civil schools called ‘polgari iskola’) were established following the Law on Public Education of 1868.]
She got married to an Orthodox [Jewish] man, and she moved to Szatmarnemeti, the family of uncle Schonberger was from Szatmarnemeti. I suppose this must have been an arranged marriage as well, but she established a family there, in Szatmarnemeti.
They were millionaires, they were wholesaler haberdashers, meaning that they didn’t sell for people, but only to merchants. They had six traveling agents. That’s how it was back then, agents traveled all around the country, and they booked the orders in villages, towns, everywhere.
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Alice Kosa