Birth certificate of Peter Reisz's aunt Ilona Breiner

Birth certificate of my aunt, Ilona Breiner. The photo of the document was taken in Budapest in 1918. Ilona was my mother's sister. She was born a year after my mother. Like my mother, she also went to middle school and then she found work as a seamstress in the Goldberger Textile Factory, a factory owned by a wealthy Jewish family. She had a fiance, but he died in WWII, so she never married. After the war she became an administrator in the state-owned Company for River Control. My grandfather had a sister named Julia who had worked as a servant in the home of a Jewish family in Budapest until 1956, when the family emigrated. She inherited their flat and lived there alone. When she grew ill in old age, my aunt Ilona moved in with her and looked after her. When Julia died, Aunt Ilona moved out of the flat and moved in with my grandmother, and we got Julia's flat. This is how we could finally move from the flat of my wife's parents in Kispest where we spent 5 years.

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