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scope and content: The Kovary and Neuhaus families papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs related to the experiences of the Kovary and Neuhaus families’ pre-World War II experiences in Czechoslovakia and Germany, respectively; their emigration due to antisemitic persecution; their immigration to the United States and Great Britain; and subsequent experiences during World War II and in the immediate post-war years. The collection also includes restitution files documenting Ernest Kovary’s work assisting Holocaust survivors in filing restitution claims. Neuhaus family materials include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs. Biographical materials document Ingrid’s immigration to Great Britain on a Kindertransport in 1939 and include her wartime diaries and a memoir she wrote in the 1990s. Correspondence files include Ingrid’s correspondence with her parents, who were killed in the Holocaust. This series also includes extensive pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Ingrid Neuhaus Kovary and her family. Kovary family materials include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Kovary family before, during, and after World War II. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; immigration documents; and documents pertaining to Olivio Kovary's repeated attempts to certify his American citizenship. Family correspondence primarily dates from the World War II years and includes many letters written in Esperanto. Photographs depict much of the Kovary family. Printed materials document the family’s interest in Esperanto. Restitution files include correspondence, forms, and notes documenting Ernest Kovary’s work as a notary public assisting Holocaust survivors in filing restitution claims.
title: Kovary and Neuhaus families papers
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history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
history: Olivio Kovary (1890-1976) was born Olivio Kovari on November 4, 1890 in Baltimore, MD, where his parents Alexander and Josefine Berkovits Kovari had arrived earlier the same year. Olivio’s birth was not registered with the proper authorities in Baltimore and a birth certificate was not issued. When Olivio was one year old, his mother became very ill and the family returned to their hometown of Galanta in what was at that time the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Josefine died soon after her return to Europe and Alexander Kovari remarried. Olivio married Esther Fuchs (1897-1988), and the couple had two sons in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia: Ernö (Ernest, 1919-2013, b. April 2, 1919) and Tibor (Tom, 1920-1988, b. June 23, 1920). In 1920 Olivio, who always regarded himself an American citizen, wrote to the US Embassy in Budapest requesting an American passport and the recognition of his citizenship, but he was refused. In 1936 he received another negative response from the US Embassy, but he was encouraged to apply for an immigration visa. Olivio, Esther, Ernö, and Tibor registered in the American Consulate for immigration. The Kovary family considered themselves to be internationalists. Ernö and Tibor were recognized as being the first native speakers of Esperanto in the world. Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887. The word esperanto means"one who hope" in the language itself. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. Esperanto has had continuous usage by a community estimated at between 100,000 and 2 million speakers for over a century, and approximately one thousand native speakers. The Kovarys were multilingual, speaking Esperanto and Hungarian (Olivio and Esther’s nati…
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record resource structure: The Kovary and Neuhaus families papers are arranged as three series: Series 1: Neuhaus family papers, 1890-2010 Subseries 1: Neuhaus family biographical materials, 1921-2010 Subseries 2: Neuhaus family correspondence, 1908-1999 Subseries 3: Neuhaus family photographs, 1890-1965 Series 2: Kovary family papers, 1890-2013 Subseries 1: Kovary family biographical materials, 1894-2013 Subseries 2: Kovary family correspondence, 1909-2011 Subseries 3: Kovary family photographs, 1890-2009 Subseries 4: Kovary family printed materials, 1906-2004 Series 3: Restitution papers, 1941-2010
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