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(A story from F.H.) My grandmother was a truly beautiful woman, like a film-star. She always wore this ring as several old photographs testify. When she died, I inherited the ring, without knowing anything much of its history. When I visited … Continue reading →

(A story from M.Sz.) My friends would know that I am fond of paintings. Until recently, when I had the means to do so, I was a regular bidder at auctions, although I never thought of myself as a collector. … Continue reading →

This letter was written to my father’s who, by that time, had been living in Budapest’s Nepszinhaz utca. It was thrown out of the window of the train taking them to Auschwitz. The letter instructs them how to get prepared … Continue reading →

1936. The book was my mother’s. She received it from my father as a wedding gift. She took it to synagogue with her. Now it’s on my book-shelf, sometimes I take it off, browsing it through.

It stood on top of my father’s enormous desk at his surgery in Nepszinhaz utca. The desk was a “sacred place”. Now it is in my home.  — We had lost so many of our objects, furniture – we had … Continue reading →

My father worked in the dentist’s surgery developed in our apartment. I was also trained as a dentist, so when my poor father suddenly died on a Tuesday evening, I got to attend his patients on Wednesday. — When I … Continue reading →

Grandma, the head of the extended family was a true grand dame. Her husband died young and she supported her three children alone: Magda (Duci), Erzsi (Bozsi) and Gyuri. She also managed her late husband’s cabinet-marker shop in Budapest. The … Continue reading →

Emil Lindenfeld visited Hungary in 1979 for the last time. He spent some time in his hometown, Hodmezovasarhely and visited his relatives living in Budapest. He gave the paintings displayed here as a present to his cousin and his wife. On the … Continue reading →

 A young lawyer started buying copper engravings from young art-dealers in the 1970′s. Works from talented contemporary Hungarian artists gradually became a small collection. The dealers regularly offered drawings, engravings from Arnold Gross, Vladimir Szabo, Miklos Borsos, Endre Szasz  for … Continue reading →

Physician Bela L and lawyer Eva V met in 1945. Numerus Clausus laws had forced Bela to leave for Italy in the 1930s to study medicine in Bologna. Upon his return to Hungary he was taken to forced labor on … Continue reading →