us-005578-irn510903
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: 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.
date: circa 1920-1960
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: hun
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 760
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn510903
record resource extent: folders 4
record resource structure: The Ilona Foldes papers are arranged as three series: I. Memoir, approximately 1960s, II. Photographs, approximately 1920-1950, and III. Clipping, approximately 1976
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Ilona Foldes papers consist of English and Hungarian versions of Foldes’ memoir, “The Unknown Destiny,” a postwar photograph of Ilona Foldes, a prewar photograph of her first husband, Arthur Révész, and three prewar and wartime photographs of their son, Paul Révész. The papers also include a clipping about the 1976 Hungarian film “Kísértet Lublón” (“Haunted Lublon” or “The Phantom on Horseback”) based on Mikszáth Kalman’s serial novel. The clipping was found among the photographs, and although its relationship with the photographs is unclear, it is considered part of the collection.
title: Ilona Foldes papers