Irma Schonberger
Name at birth
Irma Mici Singer
Date of birth
04/28/1911
Where were you born?
Where did you grow up?
Budapest, Hungary
Name of father, occupation
Leopold Singer,
Sold machinery
Maiden name of mother, occupation
Bertha Friedman,
Kindergarten Teacher
Who survived the Holocaust?
My parents, sister, husband, daughter and brother-in-law
Where were you in hiding?
In Angyalfold (near Budapest) in a basement with mother, daughter, sister and other families. Daughter, Erika, for a while, was in a Red Cross children’s safe house arranged through Raoul Wallenberg. Her husband was at Mauthausen and Gunskirchen.
When did you come to the United States?
1953 to be with sister, via Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Israel
When and where were you married?
Budapest, 1935
Spouse
David Schonberger (deceased)
Children
Erika Schonberger Rovinsky
Interviewer:
biography given by daughter, Erika Schonberger Rovinsky
Interview date:
04/02/2011
Experiences
Survivor's map
