Metadata: Brody-Pauncz family papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell Square London Greater London United Kingdom WC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 627
- Title:
- Brody-Pauncz family papers
- Title (official language):
- Brody-Pauncz family papers
- Date(s):
- 1870/1971
- Language:
- English
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 5 files
- Scope and content:
- Personal papers of the Brody-Pauncz family,1870-1971, comprise papers of George Brody's forbears, Samu, Ilona and Sigismond, 1870-1969 (627/1); papers of George Brody, 1903-1960 (627/2); papers of Irma Brody, 1909-1958 (627/3); material relating to Nazi persecution, including Jewish ID cards and special passes signed by Raoul Wallenberg, 1942-1971 (627/4) and family correspondence, 1918-1946; nd (627/5).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- George Brody and Irma, née Pauncz, and their children were a well-to-do, assimilated Jewish Hungarian family who were living in Budapest when the Nazis began to transport the Hungarian Jewish population to death camps in 1944. They survived the war and stayed on in Hungary until shortly after the Russian invasion in 1956 when George and Irma successfully attained refugee status in Switzerland and Judit came to England. Livia, the other daughter died in 1947.
- Access points: locations:
- Hungary
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brody-Pauncz
- Brody, George
- Brody, Irma
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70572
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn
- Wiener Library