Ilona Foldes papers

Ilona Foldes papers 

Ilona Foldes (1902-2001) was born Ilona Laszlo to Edward Laszlo and Yetta Springer in Felsőszvidnik, Hungary (now Vysni Svidnik, Slovakia). She lived in Prešov with her husband Arthur Révész and their son Paul until they were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944. They were sent to Berlin and then Oranienburg, where Ilona was separated from her husband and child, whom she never saw again. Ilona was sent on to Ravensbrück and survived. After the war, she married Hungarian Auschwitz survivor Sándor Foldes, and the couple immigrated to Chicago in 1952. 

Ilona Foldes papers