Tag #140960 - Interview #87722 (Mariana Farkas)

My father, Albert Bozoky, changed his name from Stein to Bozoky [1] in the 1920s because he worked with his brother, my uncle, who owned the factory. My uncle was the first to change his name, and my father followed his example, back then he was still single. When Transylvania [2] was returned [Mariana is referring to the Trianon Peace Treaty [3]], the Jews and the other nationalities were generally forced by the state to change their names. Anti-Semitism existed in Hungary even then, and my uncle didn’t want a Jewish name to be written on the frontispiece of the factory, he wanted to avoid some problems, for example somebody could have set the factory on fire, or something like that.