ca-005461-ra034
date: 1900–[after 1990]
includes or included: ca-005461-ra034-03
accruals: No further accruals are expected.
title: Pollák, Deneberger, Kiss family fonds
archivist note: Arranged and described in the summer of 2019 by Shyla Seller with input from Ilona Mermelstein and Aron Csaplaros.
scope and content: Fonds is comprised of correspondence, family records and photographs created and/or kept by members of the Pollák, Deneberger and Kiss family, a Jewish family living in Tápiószele, Hungary during the Second World War. Records document the family's separation, internment, hiding and well as pre- and post-war activities.
record resource extent: 27 documents31 photographs : prints
includes or included: ca-005461-ra034-02
archival history: Records were in the custody of Ilona Mermelstein prior to their donation to the VHEC in four accessions.
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Fonds
includes or included: ca-005461-ra034-01
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: hun
other finding aids: Item-level descriptions are available.
identifier: RA034
type: RecordSet
record resource structure: Fonds is arranged into three series by the archivist based on record form.
biographical history: Klára Kiss (nee Pollák), also known as Kiss Dánielné, was born July 8, 1913 in Cegléd, Hungary to Roza/Rozi Pollák (née Diamand/Diamant), also known as Pollák Jenőné (b. 1885, Tápiószele, d. 1944, Auschwitz), and Jenő/Eugen Pollák (b. 1883, died before 1919), who worked as an engineer and railway conductor. Jenő Pollák was declared missing during his service in the First World War. Klára married Daniel Kiss (b. 1910, Gyoma, d. 1959) around the year 1935. The couple had two children: Ilona (née Kiss) Mermelstein (b. 1937, Cegléd, Hungary) and another girl born circa 1940; the family lived behind Klára’s parents’ home at 7 Erzsebet Kiralyne Fasor in Tápiószele.In 1939, Roza Pollák was certified as a morally respectable widow and was entitled to war benefits. After the loss of her husband, Jenő, Roza lived with Sandor Deneberger (b. December 9, 1889, Baja, Hungary, d. 1944, Auschwitz) who had also served in the First World War. Sandor Deneberger worked as a jeweller and watchmaker, ran a jewellery shop and was involved in producing community theatre performances in Tápiószele. The gold and silver in Deneberger’s shop was confiscated by the Nazis.Daniel Kiss worked as a mechanic and was forced into labour by the Hungarian government. He worked for the Hungarian air force in 1943. In 1944, he was sent to a labour camp. According to his daughter, Ilona, Daniel worked for a group leader in the camp who eventually let him and eleven other Jewish labourers return home to get a change of clothes before moving to work on aircraft engines produced by the German military in tunnels and bunkers underneath the Dreher Brewery in Budapest. This change of clothes allowed Daniel Kiss to hide after the factory ceased production.At the time Daniel was forced into labour, Klára worked at the Kiss family mechanical repair shop and Klára’s parents helped to care for Ilona. Ilona’s younger sister was sent to Balotaszállás, a remote village at the southern border of Hungary, to stay with cou…
record resource source of information: Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
has or had holder: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/ca-005461