FRIEDMANN-FORGACS FAMILY       

 
 

Margit Rosenberg, the second daughter of Ignacz Rosenberg and Josefina Neuman, was married to Jeno Friedmann, born in Szatmarnemeti, Hungary (Satu Mare, Romania) in 1888. Marcell, b. 27 September 1920 may have been their only child.  Jeno died in Satu Mare in 1925.  According to Margit’s cousin Miklos Rosenberg, she perished at Auschwitz but the exact circumstances are not known.   Marci escaped from Romania and served with British General Bernard Montgomery. After the war he went to Palestine where he met and married Bruria Avi-Shaul, born in Jerusalem in 1922.  Her parents, Mordechai Mandel and Lea Seelenfreund, had settled in Palestine before the war.


Marci, a journalist and writer, returned to Hungary where their four children were born.  Veronika, a physician, was born in 1948.  Peter b. 1950  is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, whose works have been exhibited world wide. Since 1978 he has made more than thirty films. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films based on home movies from the 1930s and 1960s.  His international debut came with the Bartos Family (1988), which was awarded the Grand Prix at the World Wide Video Festival in The Hague.  Since then he has received film festival awards in Budapest, Lisbon, Marseilles, San Francisco and Berlin, where he won the Prix Europe for Free Fall, which was shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.  In 2008, he received the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival’s Spirit Award


Andras Forgach, born in 1952, and Szusa, born in 1955, are both writers. Andras’s novel Zehuze, <http://zehuze.hu>  is a 600 plus-page story comprised of a series of letters exchanged by a Hungarian-born mother in Palestine and her daughter who has returned to Hungary with her husband, as Bruria did with her husband Marci.

 

Margit Rosenberg and Marcell (Marci) Friedmann c. 1930 (left) and c. 1940 (right)

Marci, Veronika, and Bruria (Avi Shaul) Forgacs, c. 1950


     

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                      Revised August 2009.

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Peter (left), Andras (below), and Zsuzsa (right) Forgacs.