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My father’s name was Albert Molnar, but Molnar was an adopted name. But my father’s original name has a story. Since not Marmorstein was his name, but Steiner – complicated things, you see.
He told me that his mother had gone to Hungary [to her sister] to give birth, because she was from Hungary, well, she had come to Nagyborosnyo because of her marriage, she had come from far, from Budapest’s surroundings.
Her elder sister was there, she didn’t have any relatives here [in Nagyborosnyo], and back then women gave birth at home, and so she, my father’s mother went home to have her child born there, at her sister’s.
My father was born there [near Budapest] in 1888, and it’s a small town, well everybody knew everybody, the sister of my father’s mother was called Mrs. Steiner, and the midwife reported him under the name Steiner. Thus my father’s name originally was Steiner, and he was registered in Budapest.
He told me that his mother had gone to Hungary [to her sister] to give birth, because she was from Hungary, well, she had come to Nagyborosnyo because of her marriage, she had come from far, from Budapest’s surroundings.
Her elder sister was there, she didn’t have any relatives here [in Nagyborosnyo], and back then women gave birth at home, and so she, my father’s mother went home to have her child born there, at her sister’s.
My father was born there [near Budapest] in 1888, and it’s a small town, well everybody knew everybody, the sister of my father’s mother was called Mrs. Steiner, and the midwife reported him under the name Steiner. Thus my father’s name originally was Steiner, and he was registered in Budapest.
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Budapest
Hungary
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Alice Kosa
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