BRODY-PAUNCZ FAMILY PAPERS, 1870-1971

The papers in this collection document the lives of a Hungarian Jewish family which managed to survive the Holocaust thanks, in large part, to the efforts of the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg.

Of particular interest is material relating to Nazi persecution at 627/4 and 627/5. There is evidence of a relationship with Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of some 90,000 Jews in Hungary. George Brody was made a manager of one of the properties bought by the Swedish government in Budapest to give protection to Jewish citizens.

This collection also contains material on the lives of George and Irma's forbears. Included amongst which are papers relating to Samu and Ilona (George's parents) and to Sigismond Brody, (George's great uncle?), a famous Hungarian newspaper magnate who founded the Neues Pester Journal.

Most of the material is either in Hungarian or German. The depositor provided English translations of some material at 627/6

The papers have been arranged chronologically into the following classes: 627/1 personal papers of Samu, Ilona and Sigismond Brody; 627/2 Personal papers of George Brody; 627/3 Personal papers of Irma Brody; 627/4 Material relating to the Nazi persecution; 627/5 Family correspondence

• <famname>Brody-Pauncz family of Hungary</famname>
• <famname>Pauncz, Brody -, family of Hungary</famname>

January 1986

George Brody and Irma, née Pauncz, and their children were a well-to-do, assimilated Jewish Hungarian family who were living in Budapest when the Nazis began to transport the Hungarian Jewish population to death camps in 1944. They managed to survive the war and stay on in Hungary until shortly after the Russian invasion in 1956 when George and Irma successfully attained refugee status in Switzerland and Judit came to England. Livia, the other daughter died in 1947.