Family Tree Paternal grandfather Paternal grand-mother Maternal grand-father Maternal grandmother Lipot Hochberger 1870s-1920s Ferenc Also 1880s-1944 Zseni Also (nee Grunstein) 1880s-1944 Father Miksa Hochberger 1890s-1944 Mother Margit Ladanyi (magyarized from Lowinger) (nee Also) 1905-1977 Siblings none Interviewee Eva Vari (nee Hochberger) (magyarized from Weitzenfeld in 1951) 1924- Spouse Pal Vari (magyarized from Weitzenfeld in 1951) 1906-? Children Zsuzsa 1947-1991 Judit 1950- Agnes 1950-1
The interviewee and his family Full name Eva Vari (nee Hochberger), magyarized from Weitzenfeld in 1951 Where and when were you born? Budapest, 1924 Where else did you live? Debrecen, Miskolc Your educational level? Middle school then sewing course What sort of work do/did you do? Before WWII: no regular work, only sewing here and there After WWII: manager and HRO officer of a plastic producing co-operative What was the level of religiosity in your parent s home? How were you raised? Neolog (the grandparents were more religious.) What is your mother tongue? Hungarian How many languages do you speak? German, English 2
Where were you during the Holocaust? Concentration camps (Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Terezienstadt), forced labor (Wiederstadt) 3
Siblings Their names none Spouse Name? Pal Vari (magyarized from Weitzenfeld in 1951) Where and when was he/she born? Miskolc, 1906 Where else did he live? Budapest Is he/she Jewish? Yes What is his/her mother tongue? Hungarian His/her educational level? Occupation? Merchant 4
Where and when did he/she die?? 5
Children Their names? 1. Zsuzsa 2. Judit 3. Eva Were they raised Jewish/do they identify themselves as Jews? They weren t raised Jewish but they identity themselves as Jews. Where and when were they born? 1. Miskolc, 1947 2. Miskolc, 1950 3. Miskolc, 1950 Where else did they live? 1. Budapest 2. Budapest, Los Angeles 3. Budapest, Germany, Los Angeles Their educational level? 1. High school, 2. College for Theater and Dramatic Art 3. College for Theater and Dramatic Art Their occupations? 1. Journalist, housewife 2. Actress 3. Actress How many grandchildren do you have? 3 6
Father His name? Miksa Hochberger Where and when was he was born? 1890s Where else did he live? Eperjes Where and when did he die? Auschwitz, 1944 What sort of education did he have? Music studies What sort of work did he do? Musician, then merchant What was his level of religiosity? Neolog What was his mother tongue? Hungarian 7
Army service: Which army and what years? Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) 5 brothers. Jozsi he committed suicide Naci he had two sons, Rudi and Erno, the family emigrated to Israel in 1945 Dezso he was a leather merchant, had no family and was killed in Mauthausen Erno lived in Budapest, had two children, both died in the Holocaust, he survived and worked in a leather factory as manager of a department. He emigrated to Israel in 1956 and died in Petach Tikva. Tibi he survived the war Where was he during the Holocaust? Concentration camp, Auschwitz, died there. 8
Paternal grandfather Your father s father name? Lipot Hochberger Where and when was he born?, 1870s Where else did he live? Debrecen, Budapest Where and when did he die? Budapest, 1920s What sort of education did he have? Music school What sort of work did he do? Piano tuner What was his level of religiosity? Neolog What was his mother tongue? Hungarian Army service: Which army and what years? 9
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) Where was he during the Holocaust? Died before 10
Paternal grandmother Your father s mother s name? Where and when was she born? Where else did she live? Where and when did she die? What sort of education did she have? What sort of work did she do? What was her level of religiosity? What was her mother tongue? 11
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) Where was she during the Holocaust? Died before 12
Mother Her name? Margit Ladanyi (magyarized from Lowinger, this was her second husband) (nee Also) Where and when was she was born? Marosvasarhely, 1905 Where else did she live? Budapest, Miskolc Where and when did she die? Budapest, 1977 What sort of education did she have? Elementary school What sort of work did she do? Housewife What was her level of religiosity? Neolog What was her mother tongue? Hungarian Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) Sister Terez -- born around 1900, had a daughter, lived in Budapest before the war, survived the war in hiding in Budapest, after the war moved with my 13
stepfather to Miskolc where my stepfather opened an optics shop, then moved back to Budapest, then to Kecskemet end they died there. Brother Gyula born around 1903, worked as a windowdresser in Vienna, married an Austrian Gentile, left for Chile, without his wife, after the Anschluss. There he lived with someone and this is all we know about him. Where was she during the Holocaust? Concentration camps (Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Terezienstadt), forced labor (Wiederstadt) If she survived, what did she do after? Housewife 14
Your mother s father s name? Ferenc Also Where and when was he born? Somewhere in Transylvania, 1880s Where else did he live? Debrecen, Miskolc Where and when did he die? Auschwitz, 1944 What sort of education did he have? What sort of work did he do? Military jailer What was his level of religiosity? Neolog What was his mother tongue? Hungarian Army service: Which army and what years? Worked as jailer for forty years in the army 15
Tell me about his brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) Where was he during the Holocaust? Concentration camp, Auschwitz 16
Maternal grandmother Your mother s mother s name? Zseni Also (nee Grunstein) Where and when was she born? Marosvasarhely, 1880s Where else did she live? Debrecen, Miskolc Where and when did she die? Auschwitz, 1944 What sort of education did she have? What sort of work did she do? Housewife What was her level of religiosity? Neolog What was her mother tongue? Hungarian 17
Tell me about her brothers and sisters. (name, date of birth and death, occupation, place of residence, family, etc.) Where was she during the Holocaust? Concentration camp, Auschwitz 18