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 managed to survive the war and stay 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.

Regina (Riza) Weisz (1875-1963) married Zsigmond (Sigismund) Paunz (Paunc, Pauncz) who was I believe a grain merchant. They lived in Mohács. They had two daughters: Ilona (Ilonka) and Irma (1903-1985). The girls were well educated: went to Vienna to a\"finishing schoo\". Ilonka married a Slovakian Jew, divorced him (he was killed) then married another Jew a Slovakian (Hungarian, from Bratislava) and they survived the war in Iran. They came back to Slovakia and eventually to England where she had two children already. Irma married Georg (György) Bródy (1895-1976) in 1928 -she had a previous marriage about which nothing is known. Irma was a housewife but she had plenty of help. Georg was a chemical engineer, he studied in Karlsruhe. During the Nyilas regime the family lived in a Swedish protected house and Georg was the commandant of the building. He met Wallenberg several times. In 1957 they managed to go to Switzerland.