Aron "Arnold Andras" Farkas

IMPORTANT NOTE ON THE APPARENT ORIGIN OF THE FARKAS SURNAME:

Interestingly, BOTH the father's *and* the mother's sides independently changed the surnames to the Hungarian name "Farkas" (which means "Wolf"). Thight might be a remarkable coincidence, but then again there are indications to suggest that it may have been some kind of coordinated effort by both sides of the family to connect surnames in some way. Here is the information available:

1.) Very often, when a Hungarian name change happens, there is some kind of harmony. Perhaps it is a direct translation from the German name to the Hungarian one. For instance:

Braun to Barna or Deutsch to Nemet

or the name will be chosen so the first letter will be kept

Hirsch to Huszt

This is what happened with the mother's side (Friedmann to Farkas). Oddly, however, the father's side went from Kohn, to a totally unrelated Farkas, when he married into a Friedmann bride, whose brothers had (a couple of years earlier) just changed their names to Farkas as well. The father did not change his name from Kohn to Farkas until years later (1902), however. See below.

2.) The geographic origin locations of the father's and mother's families are are not that far from each other (Vynohradiv (Nagyszollos) on the father's side, and Uzhhorod (Ungvar) on the mother's side), which suggests the possibility that they ancestrally had a history. In other words, that the parents are not necessarily the first two people from the two families to have known each other and maybe eventhe first to have married, but instead that the Kohn and Friedmann families might have been in contact for a generation or two or longer. This is just a possibility, and researchers might want to keep an eye out for this, especially given the coordination of the name change to "Farkas."

It is not yet clear if Henrik had any siblings who also changed their names from Kohn to Farkas. In the name change registry, there are only five people under the same application (#69101, dated 1902) who changed from Kohn to Farkas: Henrik and his five known children. But the registry is not 100% complete.

Marriage:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6SP7-8NW?i=118

NOTE: He was not born in Budapest, per marriage record!

"My father owned a textile printing factory in Köbánya (Magyar Textil Nyomo Uzem) and also a wholesale textile business in Budapest. Before the war he also represented a large textile enterprise in Germany. He survived the forced labor camp and also escaped and eventually joined us in hiding. He died of cancer on October 1945 at age 56, in Budapest." --Maritza Shelley