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Géza Éles

  • PER-4
  • Person
  • 1881-1954
  • Son of Armin Éles and Nina Hertz
  • Husband of Lilly Montagh
  • Father of György Éles and Katharina Éles
  • Brother of Bela Eles
  • Doctorate in agriculture.
  • Apu’s father in law.
  • He served as lieutenant in WW1
  • He was the president of the Eles Group. His brother the deputy.
  • He also was a partner in a vineyard in Nagykáta and looked after the estate.
  • Idolised his older brother.
  • He was not as smart a businessman as his brother.
  • He married Montagh Lilly. Her dowry was 200,000 gold crowns, which was a huge
    amount of money, but at the time the Éles family was so rich, that this did not mean
    much to them.
  • Geza and Lilly lived on their estate at Bokszeg and later they bought a house in
    Arad. They owned the first car in Arad, and motored to Arad from Bokszeg when
    they went to the theatre.
    -Wrote his memoires “The diary of an unhappy person”. After the communist
    takeover and the loss of all of his properties and means to earn a living committed
    suicide to avoid being a burden on the family.

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Gyula Kohn

  • PER-229
  • Person
  • 1871-

Gyula Wellisch

  • PER-223
  • Person
  • 1859-1940
  • Son of Fulop Wellisch and Rozalia Tedesco
  • Husband of Stefanie Schweiger
  • Brother of Sandor Wellisch, Malvin Wellisch, Lajos Wellisch, Gustav Wellisch,
    Alexander Wellisch, Ludwig Wellisch, Hugo Wellisch and Ladislaus Wellisch
  • He and his brother were builders and developers.
  • For a hobby they also invested in free standing apartment blocks.
  • They owned six or seven apartment blocks in preeminent locations in Budapest,
    such as 5 Gellert ter etc.
  • Properties owned:
    o Maria Valeria Utca 1, 4th District Budapest
    o Kiraly Utca 88, 6th District Budapest
    o Gellert Ter 3, 11th District Budapest
    o Teleki Ter 10, 8th District Budapest
    o and considerable land.
  • Half of the estate, consisting of the houses, was owned by Gyula Wellisch, the other
    half was held by his brother, and there was a lot more.
  • He was a Privy Councillor, noted builder and architect. He built with his brother the
    Müegyetem in Budapest.
  • He and his wife had no children and all her properties were divided among her
    sisters.
  • Family crypt in the Jewish cemetery in Budapest.
  • Article on the wealth in buildings of the architect Wellisch family Budapest http://kep-ter.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/frankel-leo-ut-10.html

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Imme Benze

  • PER-20
  • Person
  • 1964-1964

Imre Pallò

  • PER-375
  • Person
  • 1891-1978

Irma Bienenstock

  • PER-9
  • Person
  • 1883-1960
  • Apu’s Mother
  • Daughter of Sàndor Bienenstock and Malvina Bienenstock
  • Wife of Adalbert Fritz
  • She was an only child
  • Apu remembers having holidays in Kőrösbökény, where his mother was born.
  • Half the village belonged to them.
  • She went to school in Arad.
  • She finished with an intermediate school certificate.
  • She was an excellent pianist with a beautiful voice.
  • Buried in the Jewish cemetery in Arad.

Irma Roth

  • PER-249
  • Person
  • -

Jacques Kanitz

  • PER-306
  • Person
  • -1958
  • He died at 93.
  • He never married and lived all his life in an apartment in a hotel in Switzerland.
  • He did not like his family except the Éles relatives whom he always helped.
  • He established the Rumanian petroleum industry for which he received Rumania’s
    highest honour. Steaua Romana
  • He had good contacts: When Gyorgy Éles (Apu’s brother in law) was taken to a
    concentration camp the manager of the Swiss Banking Corporation came
    personally to Rumania to get him out of detention. Gyorgy came back in a very
    short time, so his life was not in peril.
  • When Apu married, all their furniture (which was custom made) was bought with
    money gifted by him.

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Jakab Blum

  • PER-340
  • Person
  • 1848-
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