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1884, Arad (Transilvania, today belongs to Romania)

Parents of Kozmann Ella:
Her father: Kozmann Gusztáv (1860-?), whose parents are: Kuzman Joannes and Hirth Terézia
Her mother: Falkenhorsti Pfeifer Mária (1856-1901), whose parents are: Pfeifee Alajos and Pfeifer Katalin

Ámon Henrik was her husband.

She had four children:

•  Ámon Adél, 1913  (she lived only few months)

• Ámon Hedvig (Hédi), 1914 - 1982. She was married (her name was Galambos Vilmosné), her husband was Galambos Vilmos (1915-1989), and they have two children: Galambos Tibor (Tibi) (1947- ) and Galambos Edit (1950 -).

• Ámon László (Laci), 1915 - 1987. He married twice: first time in 1945, her wife was Tóth Erzsébet (1926-1945), but she died after two months of marriage. Laci married again in 1949, his wife is Soltész Klára (1927 -), they have 3 children: Ámon György (1950 -), Ámon Klára (1956 - ) and Ámon László(1959 -).

• Ámon Magdolna (Dulika), 1919 - . She married twice. First time in 1944, her husband was Hidas (Hikisch) Alajos, they have two children: Marianne (Pötyike) (1945-), Katinka (Babika) (1955-). Her second husband is Nagy Elemér. They live in Fresno, California.

She had full brothers/sisters and also hal brothers/sisters, because her father married two times.

Full brothers/sisters  (Their mother Falkenhorsti Pfeifer Maria died in 1901, and their father married later again. Ella was born in the first marriage.)

·         Kozmann Mária  - She married a Slovenian man (Orehek), and they lived in Belgrád (today this is called Beograd and is the capital Serbia, Yougoslavia). They had two children: Karlo Orehek  and  Valentina Orehek (Dida) - Between 1963 and 1969 Dida visited to Hungary to Ámon László and Klári and several times. She loved Hungary and the Hungarian relatives.

·         Kozmann Gusztáv - It was forbidden to talk anything about him, because he was imprisoned for any - unknown - reason.

·         Kozmann Lajos (later he Hungarianised to Ardai Lajos) - He had three sons.  His wife  (Steiner Gizella) and two sons died  in the Spanish Desease in the 1920s. His third son Tibor became a priest of Jesus Society (jezsuita pap).

Half brothers/sisters  (These brothers/sisters were from the step mother, who was a Jewish woman, her name is unknown.. Then later  the father, Kozmann Gusztáv also died, his cigarette made fire, as he fell asleep.)

·         Kozmann Leó

·         Kozmann Magda  -  Her husband was a famous painter and graphic artist, his name was Gáborjáni-Szabó Kálmán.

·         Kozmann György (he used “Kuzmann” for himself) - He was a department leader in the Ministry for Transportation in the 1950s. In 1956 during the Revolution, they left the country, they went to Germany. His wife was an Austrian lady, her name was Lelli. Few years ago Duli (Ámon Magda) visited her in Germany.

(1) Ella’s father (Kozmann Gusztáv) was a photographer in Debrecen, the family lived there. He participated on exhibitions in Paris, where he won prizes with his photos.

(2) Kozmann Gusztáv's death was caused by an accident: he  was reading newspaper and he was smoking at the same time.  He fell asleep and his cigarette lit his newspaper. This caused his death.

(3) After the death of Kozmann Gusztáv, his wife (Ella’s step mother) was sent to an institute of psychiatry (“lunatic asylum”) by her "loving" relatives, because the relatives wanted to get her properties (How cruel!)

(4) Ella’s grandmother, Hirth Terézia, was already 94 years old. She still had very good health, she went shopping everyday, to the greenmarket. One day she came home from the market, carrying two heavy bags, which she dropped on the floor. “That was enough for me, others should go on from now” – she told, and she died in two days.

(5) Ella’s grandmother,  Hirth Terézia was a little girl during the War for Freedom in 1848. She had bad experiences, when the Austrian soldiers attacked them, shouting “Wo sind die Kossuth Hunden?” – which means “Where are the Kossuth dogs?” (Kossuth  Lajos was the leader of the Hungarians, in the fight for freedom.) The  soldiers then  killed the pigs, cooked them, and have eaten up everything. They were not aware of the family! (How cruel...)

(6) The webmaster's memory about her grandmother:  - Ella's granddaughter, Ámon Klára was 6 years old when her grandmother died. When she was only 3 and half years old, her mother was away for baby delivering in hospital. In those days each morning Klári went to the grandmother who lived in the next door flat. Granny combed and braided her hair. (Klári's father had no skill to do this.) Later when Ella became ill, her daughter Hédi decided to move together with her mother. They sold the two flats and bought a bigger one (Budapest, I, Hattyú u. 8/a.) to have enough place for Hédi's family and the grandmother. Since Hédi was working, Amon Klári's mother cooked lunch for Ella. The lunch was carried to the grandmother by Ámon Klári who was 5 years old. The flat was quite close in the same street. Ella was sitting whole day in an armchair, covered up in a blanket, and sometimes complained that her legs have pain and she cannot walk.