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My husband was born on 12thFebruary 1905. He and his father had the same name, Jeno Kosa. The old man [my husband’s father] was well-to-do, he had a tannery. But it went well, because the villagers liked to wear boots and brogue made to order. I wasn’t well up with leather, but people told me they were producing very good, soft leather.
His [my husband’s] mother was raised as a Hungarian, but she came from a Romanian orthodox family. Their mother died while giving birth, and my mother-in-law was taken by a Romanian aunt, whose husband was a wealthy man called Karoly Zoldi, well I don’t know if he was a landowner, but he was an educated man, they took her [raised or adopted her] when she was three or even smaller.
His [my husband’s] mother was raised as a Hungarian, but she came from a Romanian orthodox family. Their mother died while giving birth, and my mother-in-law was taken by a Romanian aunt, whose husband was a wealthy man called Karoly Zoldi, well I don’t know if he was a landowner, but he was an educated man, they took her [raised or adopted her] when she was three or even smaller.
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Romania
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Alice Kosa