Pavel Fabry

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Introduction: Pavel Fenyvesi Fabry (born 25. 9. 1906 in Budapest; died in 1998 in Prague) came from three brothers (Valeri Tibor). He studied economics in Zurych, however due to local conditions had to feed as an accountant or fitter in CKD. He speaks Czech, Slovak (even better than English), German, French and of course Hungarian. It would certainly be very happy if his memory read many people as possible.

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Paternal come from one of the hundreds of Jewish families for centuries oppressed and persecuted.

Probably he was expelled from West to East. After 1780 under the Edict of Tolerance it settled on the Moravian (then Hungary) border. Weiss family was given surname. They settled in the triangle Ilava - Myjava - Trenčín.

Our grandparents came by his father's stories from around Drietoma and Velčice. They were craftsmen, woodcutters, peddlers and even farmers. Even in our childhood there lived relatives and stepfather siblings. I remember very vaguely, although we went there to visit a coach. Once we have taken a trip to Vlárský pass and were also one glassworks. Even today, I see that the molten glass in front of him.

Father relatives were small traders and tilled the soil a few Korce. My father's father was a widower in his name to remember. He married a second time, actually married into Dubnica n. Váhom a small shop of groceries to families Taubová. Here he was born as a posthumous father of 27. 10. 1875. He had his two sisters, Cilk and Hermína. He died in 1884 and mother.

Minors took grandmother's brother, dentist in Dubnica, in a special way. Liquidated business, Herm sent to Graz (Graz) to the one related to learn dressmaker. Cilka who was 16, was married to a widower with eight minor children - seven girls and a boy, who was the youngest and who was 14 years old. Cilčin husband named Adolf Eisenberg, had a small shop with building materials and lived in Nove Mesto nad Vahom. Dr. Pipes moved to Moravian Ostrava and Father Hugo sent a nine-also in Nove Mesto nad Vahom. What he did not know, nor to whether going to school. It is sure to overcome the sad and difficult time. The father had never spoken in detail the time and we, the children, unfortunately, we never looked after the family tree. Therefore, by the time we do not know anything significant.

The fact is that my father get daily meal at another Jewish family, eating leftovers in the kitchen like a beggar. So after a ten he escaped and walked to Budapest. Here, he took one trader of construction materials. The whole family (four kids about his father's age) worked there together: children wore planks, bricks, lumber, sand, etc. On Saturdays they played together almost like brothers. In the 80th to 90th years there was a flourishing of Budapest and small businesses became wholesale. My father was a clever, industrious, docile, but also a little dreamer. He attended evening courses, he learned to perfect Hungarian, German, and speak and write, and also accounting. He became a great scholar, and he became the chief clerk of the company. At the time, according to the custom of the changed name Fenyvesi because Fenyves means spruce forest and father worked most spruce timber. Slovak spoke only hard Trenciansky dialect.

After years nuzování poverty and plunged into a full city life. He was a cheerful character, met with the progressive youth was politically close to liberalism and social democracy. His friends were two of a kind, it was the students, civil servants, students, actors, writers. He also had an acquaintance with one expectant actress, who a few years became a star of Budapest boards, something like with us Lyubov Hermann. Then she married the most famous bon vivant Pest operettas Ernö Király. Coincidentally with their parents met in Karlovy Vary, the mother had waited for Tibor. The actress was so dirty that her mother never revile.

About the time our children's father liked to tell, most often bought as his boss coat and how scared anxious cash your business.

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Cilka sister (married Eisenberg) was smart, ugly, excellent organizer, has built a small store a great deal of construction materials and custom manufacturing of cement products.

Uncle Adolf was a big, fat, burly man, coarse behavior. He was about twenty years older than aunt. Aunt did not have their own children .

Aunt Cilka marry all the girls, and almost without dowry. Son Ödön (Edmund) took over the business and moved to the old Trenčín to own a beautiful villa. There lived nature of the property. Shortly after moving to Trencin uncle he died. We often visited an aunt in Nové Mesto nad Váhom, almost always on Passover, where the whole family gathered, it is about 3 0-40 people. There we saw the first time something of Judaism (religion). Aunt lived in Trencin 2-3 years alone, wrote novels and stories women in red as a library and la Court- Mahler that we still read to children. It was very energetic, confident and often used the question: "Am I right, or not !?" But god forbid say no! Then she married into Mohelnice Moravia, marriage got three girls, two were already married in Vienna, where they had shields to store Gerngross. The youngest, but the older girl to marry later. When the second husband died, she returned again to Trenčín, where she married a third time, but shortly afterwards died of the consequences of otitis media. The operation was moved to Bratislava and from there almost dead overmanouvers in her doctor's accompaniment to Trenčín, where she was buried beside her first husband Eisenberg.

Most Eisenberg descendants perished under Hitler. Survived certain Kukuková from Bratislava (childless), her brother in the US, then Erži Weiss, married Taussigová of New Town, who lived in Shanghai, and one Weissmann probably lives in Israel. We have no news about them.

Aunt Cilka we called "die Muhme". When the late twenties fared poorly financially father, he was the one who helped him.

Herma sister was pretty, manicured and elegant lady. Graz apprenticed to a dressmaker, had his own workshop, and if I remember, for our mother sewed most of her wardrobe. She married Adolf Feurstein, insurance officer and reserve officer, which was at that time a trait that the poor girl without dowry married a young man with graduation. From the marriage three children were born. The oldest Franz was nice, handsome young man. Very confident, excellent swordsman. The second son Kurt other hand, was small, ugly, but very friendly and warmhearted. Elly youngest she inherited her mother's beauty. Almost every year Feursteinova family often drove us to SUČANY. With the outbreak of World War I Uncle Adolf he enlisted. Franz and Kurt did after the war became a high school diploma and officers of the Austrian army. But none of them did not get to the front. Throughout the war and even after the war, their parents sent packages and food. Aunt and uncle then fortunately died before Hitler einmarschem to Austria.

After the war, both Franz and Kurt's father took to him to learn the secrets of the timber business and working on a steam sawmill. Franz did not want us to live in rented accommodation in Sučany, but we went to eat. We gave him the nickname "Franz der Fresser" because without encouraging ate everything that came to the table.

For pilařství but he did not show much interest, even if his father had hired a small iron gate - water sawmill, where he had to work independently. But instead he went to work for Mrs. Schulzova that could be his mother, and left there to serve as a Turkish pasha. In a small nest Sucany as people began to whisper and when Franz got a gift from Mrs. Schulzova gold watch, his father sent away, and he was replaced by Kurt.

Franz went to Vienna, where he began to study economics eye, but probably seek pleasure and German Bursaki provoked a duel. He moved in the demi-monde and wrote lyrics to songs. Even a single "Die Teepuppe" was a success. For lack of money he interrupted studies and joined the clerical position in Hamburg. Where he met a year older lady (Ann) from the UK. Anna's family had a stake in the textile mills in Scotland. They married and settled in Vienna, where he bought a very beautiful villa, and Franz received as a wedding gift car. Ann was very prescient. Franz had taken care of home room and board, as well as the petrol car himself had to earn. It did so that their friends from the demimonde substances sold the rights to the English factory ".

Ann long we did not know, so we nicknamed her NN. He behaved to us as related. In the 17 years I was in Vienna, and despite their large villa , I lived in a hotel and once invited me for lunch. It was very enterprising, and excluding interest on his father's shares hosted tourists from the UK, went with them for shopping, the shops, for which he received always some percent. In 1938, when Hitler came to Austria, Ann was in England, Franz managed to escape. At one time he worked as a chef in Paris and then in 1939 came with his wife to London. In 1940 he was interned and sent to Australia. From there he was later released. From Franz married Ann and had a son, who died as a university teacher. As Franz and Ann are for years after death.

Kurt diligently become proficient timber. For two years he went to Zagreb, where he became director of a large timber company. Tibor big help when he got during the Second World War in Yugoslavia. Kurt remained unmarried and died during the Second War as a result of persecution.

Elly was nice, a little stronger, flirtatious girl. After graduation in Graz he did not want to stay in the provincial town and went to study law in Vienna. But not studied much, he had a serious relationship with engineer Vítkovský the steward of a country estate. At the first symposium (now about credit) hardly she knows. So the investigator docent said, "If you were not so pretty, you would re-test." This quip Elly woke up in ambition and rushed to study with great verve and wedding postponed. Vítkovský engineer had lost place as a result of plotting estates and after marriage emigrated to Canada. Vítkovský died after World War II due to an accident and stayed with daughter Ella herself. At that time she managed badly and she wanted Valerie to the local estate of Vítkovském pointed to Canada. She could not understand that in a socialist state could not do such a transaction, and broke off relations with us. Daughter studied medicine. We do not know anything more. One half-sister was married to Old hikes Marmonsteina. He was a plumber, but could it well. They had two girls and a boy. Father is supported until it could. Daughters gave dowry and Arthur (b. 1904) had to graduate from college. He graduated from the Brno technique. The whole family, except for Arthur, ended up in Auschwitz. He survived the war and then settled in Nove Mesto nad Vahom. He changed his name to citizen and moved to Bratislava. In addition, my father had a range of relatives. Some I recognized need in Trenčín, Žilina and Zurich (Herbert Taub) and Moravia in Ostrava and Olomouc. We socialized with only very sporadically. We do not know what was their fate. Most they died in different concentration camps.

Mother's family comes probably from the Rhine - Hesse of Strelingu. According to legend, Dr. Alexandra Strelinger, another mother's brother, a doctor from Budapest, which dealt with the family tree Štrelingerová were in Xiji. century either expelled or voluntarily moved out of German miners to the then Upper Hungary in Liptov, a source of silver and gold until the XIX. century. They lived near Partisan Ľupča (German Ľupča). Ĺupča guerrilla was the seat of the oldest in Liptov to r. In 1763 it took place and the county assemblies. There are two Gothic churches of XIII. century and a century of evangelical

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Štrelingerová family has grown and divided on liptovsko- Orava Zvolenská-Bansko Bystrica, which branch. The oldest known gravestone was from 1702 to Okolicne, which is now part of Liptovsky Mikulas. Grave belonged to our praprababičce.

Grandparents were wealthy people. Our grandfather Wilhelm (Vilmos) was born in. 1850 was the youngest of nine siblings. He graduated from c. 1870, when the family decided that enlists to 10 years instead of one of the older brother, who was married and had a family. He was somewhere in Galicia and returned after eight years of the pretense of tuberculosis, wherein the pharmacist friend helped him. He returned, however, after his father's death, when you have older siblings with each other all the property divided. The only thing you learned in the army, were cards, and so the family did not know what to do with him. They gave him the most miserable country cottage, a few fields. They married him with Fany Grossmann from Turany from Turca. Since grandfather did not understand farming, field rented or sold. His job happened to go down a raft weight up to Komarno where logs sold. Its main activity has been waiting at the Budapest buyers and negotiate sales. Meanwhile, he is playing cards.

The oldest child was the mother of Sophia, born November 15, 1883 and other Frigyes - Frici (Frederick). In another birth our grandmother died. Fricka adopted older brother, grandfather, mother and Koloman get into the convent boarding school in Ruzomberok. Grandfather married a second time. He took a Porgesová Jenny, with whom he had three more children. Paul, who was married to Budapest for engineer Polgár, cloak; boy Jeno (Eugene), a lawyer who died r. 1916 in the First World War. We do not own grandmother Jenny, my kids hated because we felt that the use and abuse our mothers who are very loved.

Mother was nice (as all girls Štrelingerová), slim girl - when the wedding was 42 cm in waist. She had beautiful eyes and long thick auburn hair, which kept the increase down to the waist. Her stepmother expelled from school and had to do at home maid for everything. She was smart, kind-hearted, well-read and knowledgeable world literature. She spoke and wrote in Hungarian and German. Slovak dialect spoken Liptovským soft compared to his father's hard Trencin Slovak.

Pavel Fenyvesi Fabry

Vilmos grandfather met his father in Komarno in the sale of timber as a 27-year-old chief clerk of the company.

To please him and invited him to ĽUPČA that he introduced his eldest daughter Žofinka, who was then 19 years old. She liked him and to his mother's twentieth birthday was the wedding - November 15, 1903. The wedding took place in Kraĺovanech to relatives of Orava, Liptov and Banska Bystrica can be present without having to remote ĽUPČA. Thus came the mother, farm girl, in Budapest. They decided, under the influence of aunts Cílek and Herm, who was a delegate of the First Zionist Congress in Basel that, although neither mother nor father was pious and did not know the Jewish rite, lead "kosher household." Such a household takes a few months for the mother with the young women proudly boasted that leads kosher household. The women were very surprised, as it does, because in the area was a ritual butcher. For general merriment mother said, "Why?", She buys only stamped meat. In Germany Ĺupča were indeed kosher meat stamping rabbi.

In Budapest, but the slaughterhouse meat proof safety razítkovali vets. Thus ended the ritual home parents, and we, the children, we have not received religious education. A little Hebrew we have learned to read in religion classes.

My parents had a two-room apartment with balcony for 13 Rakoci tér (square Rákociho), and there we were born. Tibor January 14, 1904, I 25. 9. 1906, Valér 28. 5. 1910. At that time, I do not remember much. Tonal and Tibor was little, and I played the most on the balcony or in the park opposite.

We had a carefree childhood until such time as our mother said that soon we get a small, poor Katinka, and therefore can not have fun on Sundays matrimonial bed. I was really angry and I said that there Katinka slight tear. Fortunately not, because instead of the expected Katinky was born a boy - Valeri. At that time we had, as was the custom, family doctor, my father's friend Dr. Kőszeghy. He was a handsome man with a beautiful beard. He was probably, as we later figured, very fond of my mother, and he was with us all the time.

Every Sunday come to us for lunch uncle Fric, who studied the technique of railway engineering. Our childhood then deteriorated foster grandmother. Just us moved, after her daughter married an engineer Paul Polgár, rather limited and arrogant man.

Grandmother did not live with their own daughter, who had a three-room apartment , but with us in two rooms where we lived five and later seven.

That's because Paul almost the same time he was born Valerie gave birth to a boy Paul. Grandmother to protect his own daughter, forced by our mother, in addition to Valero and nursed her own grandson, Paul. He did not calm, the mother had to take care of all, and there's so much that mother got breast inflammation, and had to be operated. At that time there were first fight and has come so far that the father grandmother went with Paul and Paul and engineer Polgárem.

Now he could finally was quiet. Unfortunately, the father fell ill, he had a lot of pain throughout the body and no one could advise. So his friend Dr. Köszeghy took his father to a sanatorium in Vienna, where he discovered tuberculosis kidneys and immediately operated on. They decided to remove one kidney to save another. Such an operation, the case was very unusual at the time, rarer than it is today-heart surgery. The operation was successful, but the father remained a lifelong invalids and had to diet. Marod 16 months. During that time lost place, all assets and savings disappeared. As our mother said over lunch not knowing what will give us for dinner. I just remember that we at one time turned off the gas - and then light was cooked mostly on gas and we sat by candlelight. When it was hardest to help the entire family, they got hold of some money and credit.

Father united with one joiner and opened their own artistic carpentry. They made beautiful furniture. The father was responsible for the sale of furniture. He had, of course, represent, and we moved into a new apartment in a beautiful villa on trojdomku Szabó József u. No. 14. It was in the autumn. 1912. A big change also because my school started (Arena Tue.).

We used to live upstairs on the second floor next to us and moved his mother's uncle Jozef Nagy (Grossmann) and his wife Sari-year old daughter Edith and three-year son Paul. The apartment is to furnish our own production.

Father began to flourish. On holidays we went to the German Ľupča, also Adriatic. As children we had lots of friends, we were chased around the garden, we undertook trips into the sewer, where we killed the rats. On Sundays, we broke into the side foundries and do other mischief. We had the whole battle with other children from the streets. We used to go to watch the football, athletics and sometimes cycling on Stadium Millenáriss.

In 1914 we were we, the children, (I do not know whether Valér also) at a summer apartment in one of his mother's uncle Kishegyesi in the south of Hungary, in present-day Yugoslavia. We had to learn, but instead we are living the life of country boys. We were climbing the trees, we chased the girls rode on horseback to the feeder, we grazed geese and ring every day we went to church. Just as true rural boys.

Suddenly appeared one unknown woman in a hat and a parasol, and that woman turned out to be our mother. She came to us because the outbreak World War. Parents did not know what would happen next. My father's companion, a carpenter, had to join the father is not invalid. Joinery were liquidated.

Father introduced at Kerepesi út production boxes. Purchases material and a few cases of women churned. Boxes had sold Manfred Weiss Csepel to the packaging of ammunition and in canneries. So it went until. In 1916, when my father bought a neglected steam sawmill in Sučany.

What was the marital life of parents I do not know. Father earned money and my mother stayed home with the children . My father was almost at home as a guest. On public holidays and Sundays got breakfast in bed, he commanded what to be for lunch.

About us children, with much care, sometimes on Sunday morning he took us to the circus - where the biggest attractions were sausages with horseradish -

or to the cafe Emke (opposite today's department store at the Great Market Square (Grand Boulevard). There we got ice cream, he played cards, and he felt good again took us to Angola park where his friend was the owner of the carnival and we, the children, we free to enjoy all the attractions.

As children we never nenapomínal. Most of us care catered mother we, as we already mentioned, above all, love.

Although we had a maid, most of the domestic work done by the mother. As I mentioned, step-grandmother lived with us and often burdened mother with every manner.

Youngest uncle Eugene, who studied law, we had to take on board and lodging for us. Also, Paul, with my sick husband and child Paul, have been with us twice - three times a week for lunch, because her grandmother investigated. My mother was a dutiful daughter, but it all led to a quarrel with his father. My father was vznětlivec and mother under the influence of quarrels terribly suffered, used to have a terrible migraine.

Moreover, often he used to be with us the whole hospital. There was no teething problems that we had. Therefore, it was often with us our home doctor Dr. Köszeghy, which made the mother beautiful eyes. Needless, then morality forbade adultery.

In 1916 I got to high school. Already in first grade we had Latin and six times a week from the third year began with the Greek. Because of the war classes were merged and we were even sixty in one class. The professor did not even know where he stands head and who is present. Usually ten of us went on the trip. We often used to go to the next monastery, where the girls' school. In class, we played cards back and read Nick-Carterovky. We used to have coal holidays that lasted even two months. We did not learn it.

In 1918, we used to go to the demonstrations for peace and republic. I remember in September 1918 at the National Theatre police fired into the crowd and dispersed the crowd sabers. We had social-democratic revolution, and then the Soviet Republic.

Father became a member of obligations Street Guard. The task was to patrol rifle and keep order. But mostly they are sitting with cards and tea.

For Soviet Republic ordered us to the apartment (one room) of three working-class family. I remember that the new madam like her mother's dressing table (three-part mirror).

In 1919 they occupied the Czech legionaries Slovakia. Father lost connection to Sucany. Therefore, we set out on an adventurous journey to SUČANY where we had furnished second home and where we should be just "temporarily." Budapest apartment we had under the supervision of Aunt Sari Nagy.

Pavel Fenyvesi Fabry