Fritz Family Archive

Daughter of Geza Eles and Lilly Montagh
Wife of Laszló Fritz (Apu)
Mother of Peter Fritz and Anne Fritz
Sister of Dr György Éles
Married Apu in 1940, most of the trousseau came from Budapest. The silverware
and the other valuables were lost in a fire as they were not able to be brought down
to Arad during the war.
In 1945 when Apu went up to Budapest to take some food all the jewels were still
with the family in Budapest. In the end all the buildings were nationalised and
became State owned property.
Apu and Katò emigrated in December 1961 and met the Forrai family at the train
station in Budapest.

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Dr György Tibor Egyed Ervin Éles

PER-27
Pessoa singular
1910-2000

Anne Fritz (nee Biro)

PER-801
Pessoa singular

Wiebke Benze

PER-802
Pessoa singular

Lipot Adalbert Fritz

PER-8
Pessoa singular
1875-1940

Apu’s Father.
Son of Moricz Fritz and Rozalia Wertheimer
Husband of Irma Bienenstock
Father of Laszló Fritz and Sàndor Fritz
He was a Major in WW1, decorated Imperial Order of Leopold (Austria)
He was born in Demend (now Demendice in Slovakia). In fact the name was
spelled for generations Fricz (Slovak spelling) and was germanised to Fritz. They
were landowners.
He had an elder sister (Rozalia Fritz) and elder brother (Zsigmond Fritz).
When a child the family migrated to USA, but later returned to Hungary.
When still in America he followed the socialists.
He was taken out of college (because he failed his exams) and he became a
printer’s apprentice.
Since he had not matriculated he was only able to be a lower level clerk. He
matriculated when he was 28 years old and in 1918 before the Romanian
occupation he was the second highest officer in the Arad County Postal Service. He
was chief accountant.
His uncle was the district medical superintendant. The whole family except them
were very well off. Apu did not know them.
Was a major in the war and was the Postmaster General of the Montenegro Central
Postal Services. Decorated with the Knight of the Order of Lipot
Commander of Montenegro during World War I. Post-master general during the
French occupation of Arad and surrounding region, after WWI.
With double pay he was accommodated in the Montenegro Royal Palace.
He sent beautiful miniature gold pieces such as a fully furnished doll’s house home.
A Thora roll in gold casing etc.
When Apu’s parents married his father got the dowry in gold. It was so much that
they needed a carriage to take it to the bank. As part of the dowry there was also a
forest in Keszend in Apu’s mother’s name.
When Apu’s parents got married they moved to Zám.
It was probably an arranged marriage with Apu’s mother.
He was an excellent father, a good friend, who knew how to live. Both the family
and the social lives were lived on a high level.
He was an avid stamp collector. In 1919 when we were under French occupation,
he was the one who with two friends issued the reprinted Hungarian stamps with
the French Occupation overprint. There were about 400-500 series. Since they
were rare people bought them for investment until somebody started counterfeiting
them and their value dropped.
The stamp collection was used to cover Ferry Imre’s (Apu’s cousin’s) studies in
Germany.
In the afternoon he went to the club after he left the office. He knew everybody and
everybody liked him.
When he came back from the war, he bought an old house in the Aulich Lajos
Street and he made it into a castle. In the end it cost double, the garden was laid
out by the chief gardener of the city. The renovation was carried out by the best
architect.
He died during an operation despite two of the best doctors (Profs Popp and Gara)
being in attendance.
Buried in Jewish cemetery, Arad.

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Unknown Artist

Wilhelm (III.) Benze

PER-18
Pessoa singular
1930-2017

Frieda Platte

PER-29
Pessoa singular
1892-1970

Marliese Benze

PER-31
Pessoa singular
1921-

Curt Schroeder

PER-36
Pessoa singular
1911-

Marga Kraus

PER-37
Pessoa singular
1919-

Charlotte Angelika Schroeder

PER-40
Pessoa singular
-

Siripet Kongkaew

PER-41
Pessoa singular
-

Sàndor Bienenstock

PER-47
Pessoa singular
1858-1903

Apu’s grandfather
Son of Emanuel Bienenstock
Husband of Malvina Bienenstock (his 1 st cousin, they married to keep their wealth
together. They were very, very rich)
Father of Irma Bienenstock.
The family did not live in Zám.
They lived in the Kőrös Valley.
They had seats in the synagogue in Arad (both male and female) and they went
there every important feast day.
The properties in Zám were extensive.
He died at 44 years of age.

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Rozalia Wertheimer

PER-49
Pessoa singular
-

Bela Éles

PER-58
Pessoa singular
1846-1904

Son of Armin Éles and Nina Hertz

Husband of Rozsi Haraszthi
Brother of Geza Eles
Doctorate in Law.2
He was an entrepreneur. He was involved in all sorts of businesses.
He was also an avid gambler. A card player, he spent money recklessly. He lost a
lot of money. Without asking his brother he siged IOUs in his name.

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Friedrich Heinrich Platte

PER-67
Pessoa singular
1867-1938

Karin von Pentz

PER-78
Pessoa singular
1954-

Kerstan von Pentz

PER-79
Pessoa singular
-

Markwart Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm von Pentz

PER-80
Pessoa singular
1963-

Bettina Krummel

PER-82
Pessoa singular
-

Heinrich Karl Eduard Kraus

PER-87
Pessoa singular
1888-

Beno Schrank

PER-105
Pessoa singular
-

Rachel Agneta Fritz

PER-108
Pessoa singular
-

Erika Fritz

PER-109
Pessoa singular
-

Yael Fritz

PER-110
Pessoa singular
-

Simon Élias

PER-116
Pessoa singular
1810-

Mòr Montag

PER-125
Pessoa singular
1829-1898

Although the Montagh family had land in Kanak (now Rumania) the Montagh
fortune was built by Mor Montag.
Lipot Montag was Mor’s father.
Mor escaped with the rest of the family to Szeged / Mako.
He had 12 children. Each had its own trade. One was an accountant, the other a
solicitor and so on, thus the family’s business was taken care of from within the
family.
He had an estate of 12 thousand kataszter hold (1 kataszter hold is 5755 m2) and
he rented a further 14 thousand.
He must have been a formidable individual. Not only because of the fortune he built
but also because of his civic contribution: after the floods of Szeged he organized
the rebuilding of the town using his own money. The painting made of him
(http://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000001211818683?album_type=photos_of_
me&photo_id=6000000027748094873&position=0) was a gift of the grateful
citizenry.
When he died every son received 1000 kataszter hold.
Mor Montag, when in Budapest, lived at 4 Andrassy ut and the family office was at 2
Andrassy ut.

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Eva Forrai

PER-138
Pessoa singular
1920-1945

Was shot by the Nazis into the Danube just a few days before the Russian liberated
Budapest.
Eva was the families’ favourite.
Éva was very talented, but was also very spoilt.

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Peter Forrai

PER-139
Pessoa singular
1918-1995

Son of Dezsö Forrai and Ada "Dolly" Montagh
Father of Tamàs Forrai
Had a sister Éva, who was very beautiful.

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Maria Montagh

PER-141
Pessoa singular
-2016

Grete Wilkening

PER-156
Pessoa singular
-2000

Christina Beatrice Luise Wollenweber

PER-158
Pessoa singular
1978-

Vanessa Wollenweber

PER-160
Pessoa singular
1985-

Anne Koelker

PER-167
Pessoa singular
-

Vera Felicitas von Einem, genannt von Rothmaler

PER-168
Pessoa singular
1966-

Auguste Emilie Kraus

PER-175
Pessoa singular
1887-

Max Graf von Moy

PER-180
Pessoa singular
-

Charlotta Gräfin von Moy

PER-182
Pessoa singular
-

Constantin Graf von Moy

PER-184
Pessoa singular
-

Luisa-Marie Burghard

PER-190
Pessoa singular
-

Emma-Sophie Burghard

PER-191
Pessoa singular
-

Hanno Moldenhauer

PER-192
Pessoa singular
-

Marica Ferry(Fritz)

PER-195
Pessoa singular
-

Marta Schrank

PER-196
Pessoa singular
-

Thomas Schuler

PER-197
Pessoa singular
1970-

Eva Kanitz

PER-201
Pessoa singular
1817-1863

One of Nina Herz’s aunt
She married Adolf B.B. Weiss and was the mother of Baron Manfred Weiss de
Csepel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfréd_Weiss_Steel_and_Metal_Works) the
founder of the Hungarian metal processing industry. He owned the Csepel works.
Mother of Judith Machlup, Antonie Weiss, Berthold Weiss, Helene Neumann,
Nikolaus Weiss, Manfred (Mano) Weiss de Csepel, Baron and Jenny Eissler

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Jozsef Schweiger