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| Section |
Year |
Description |
| 1. |
1901 |
Funeral Notice
for Therese Kuffler and identification of graves of
David & Therese Kuffler (MKS great-grandparents) at Beckov Castle. |
| 2. |
1910 |
Funeral Notice
for Max Schwitzer (MKS great-uncle) listing family members
full page of NFP (5Mb) |
| 3. |
1918 |
Funeral Notice
for Adolf Kuffler (MKS great-uncle)
listing MKS grandparents and other family members
entire NFP (10Mb) see foot of page 12 |
| 4. |
1925 |
Funeral Notice
for Roza Hajós née Schwarcz (MKS great-grandmother)
listing family including MKS |
| 5. |
approx 1935 |
 Sommerfest.
Newspaper report of open-air school leaver's
gala evening on the banks of the Danube by the students of the
German Staatsrealgymnasium, mentioning MKS's performance in a play,
and ending with a torchlight procession and rendition of "Gaudeamus igitur".
Cutting
Translation |
| 6. |
1937-1940 |
Visitors Book
Document
Notes |
| 7. |
1938-1946 |
Wartime Correspondence
 |
| 8. |
1942-1945 |
Szemző Archive.
Extract
from Béla Szemző's memoirs by his granddaughters |
| 9. |
1957 |
Polgar Archive.
New York Times front page photo and other press coverage
of the departure of George and Katharine Polgar & family from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey,
the last Hungarian refugees to leave the holding camp.
Document |
| 10. |
1987 |
My First Thirty Years, MKS's memoirs.
Contents & Foreword
Ch1 Ancestral Triangle
Ch2 Slovak History
Ch3 Slovak Jewry
Ch4 Maternal Family
Ch5 Mother
Ch6 Paternal Family
Ch7 Father
Ch8 Final Years of an Empire
Ch9 Madunice
Ch10 Piestany
Ch11 Tutors Harvest Germany
Ch12 Bratislava
Ch13 New Farms, Secondary School, Divorce
Ch14 Pastimes Sports
Ch15 Farming Country Pleasures
Ch16 Philosophy
Ch17 Politics
Ch18 Friends Matura
Ch19 Paris Channel Prague
Ch20 Student Politics, Skiing
Ch21 Anschluss Bexhill
Ch22 Czecho Crumbles, Prague, England
Ch23 SMH Farm
Ch24 Hallo London
Ch25 UCL SMH Stratford Bamag
Ch26 Bamag, Not Fit
Ch27 SMH Devon
Ch28 Reflections
Ch29 V1 Family Fate VE Day
Ch30 Continent Revisited Wedding Bells
AppA Mother's Testament
AppD Person Index
AppE Correspondence
AppF Visitor's Bk |
| A. |
|
Family Trees
MKS Ancestors
Schwitzer-Kuffler (1987)
Schwitzer-Kuffler (2021)
Szemzo-Schlesinger (2021)
Szilard-Hajos-Polgar (1987)
Descendants of Mor Hajós (2021) |
| B. |
1945 |
Holocaust Records.
Alice Schwitzer
data
Anni Schwitzer
data
Adler Anni & Schwitzer Alice are listed on page 8 of
Czechoslovak Women in Ravensbruck |
| C. |
1937-2014 |
Grave Locations.
MKS: Highgate Cemetery (West Cemetery).
Simon Schwitzer: Tepličky Cemetery (Cintorin Tepličky);
mausoleum;
inside;
relief.
Simon Szilard:
Jewish Cemetery, Hlohovec
(Židovsky Cintorin v Hlohovci)
on main Nitra Road (Nitrianska), immediately after catholic cemetery,
about 1km from
where he lived on
St Michaels Square (Námestie svätého Michala);
grave location;
new 2011 gravestone;
closeup. |
| R. |
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