MUDr. Ferdinand Karvaš

"Ferdinand Karvaš was born on 2 June 1892. He worked as a medical practitioner in Horná Ulica of Banská Bystrica and was also a head physician in a spa in near-by Brusno. He was married to Karola née Skutecká, a paintress (see below). The couple had one son, Peter Karvaš (born on 25 April 1920). After the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising, he and his wife were seized by the Gestapo in Banská Bystrica on 18 December 1944, imprisoned...and executed...on 9 January 1945.[10]

Their son could survive. He became a well known playwright, prose and theater theorist as well as a diplomat. He died in 1999 in Bratislava"

Source for biography above: Stolpersteine in the Banská Bystrica Region; see also Wikipedia article. Note: Stolpersteine article indicates that Ferdinand and his wife Karola were executed in Germany; however, this appears to be an error due to the similarity of the town name Nemecka and the Slovak word for Germany.

Article about the family (in Slovak)

Birth: Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books, 1592-1935 > Jewish (Židovská obec) > Banská Bystrica > Banská Bystrica > Births (Narodenia) 1867-1895 > 1892 (Image 110/134) (Note: This record also notes his name change from Kohn > Karvaš.)

Death: Yad Vashem Page of Testimony from friend Matitiahu Golombosh | Page of Testimony from Dr. Yitzchak Vero