Lajos (Louis) Marmorstein
(1897-1945)

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  • Izsak and Esther’s second child, Lajos was born in Középlak in 1897. He served in the Hungarian army in Russia and Italy during World War I. He was wounded late in the war and was awarded medals for his service. In 1922, he was the fourth Marmorstein son to come to America, where he was known as Louis. Unlike the others, he was unhappy in America and returned home later in the 1920s. There, he married Ibolya Geist in 1927(?) and they had two sons, Erwin (1928) and Elemer (1930). They prospered in the village of Váralmós throughout the 1930s, owning property, employing many local people on their farms and in their timber and mining business. Sometime after Hungary joined the Axis powers in 1940, Lajos was conscripted into forced labor. He was somehow able to return home in 1943, but in 1944, he and his family were deported to Auschwitz with virtually all the Jews of the region. He survived into 1945, but was murdered in Buchenwald late in the war. His wife was also murdered in the camps, but his sons survived and eventually made their way to America.




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