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JGSGB South & West London RG - Jan 3rd 2021 2.30pm – with Jill Whitehead – “The History of my House: the Dukes family of Hlohovec, Vienna and Budapest”

Having just completed the JGSGB session at the UK Limmud Festival 2020, I’d like to thank those familiar faces that supported us, even though I realise you know it all already! Here is a reminder about our next meeting in our Virtual Meeting Programme, which is from the JGSGB South & West London Regional Group (SWL RG) by Zoom.
 

Date: Sunday January 3rd 2021
Time: 14:30 London, 09.30 New York, 16:30 Jerusalem
Title: The History of my House: the Dukes family of Hlohovec, Vienna and Budapest
Speaker: Jill Whitehead
Description: The Dukes family lived in my house in Sutton, Surrey, between 1946 and 1993, having escaped Vienna in 1939. This is the story of how a Jewish family – father and sons – built up an agricultural empire in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, with farms in Slovakia feeding the growing populations of Vienna and Budapest. One son, Leopold Lipmann, became the boss of the family company, with an HQ in Vienna, and it was he who came to Sutton with his family in 1939, later followed by a nephew, Ladislav, in 1940 in a very dramatic fashion. Leopold Lipmann’s younger brother Geza was a famous forensic psychologist in Budapest, an acolyte of Sigmund Freud, who lost his life in the Holocaust in 1944, as had Leopold Lipmann’s own son, shortly before the family fled Vienna. Life in suburban Sutton was very different to a very lavish life in Vienna where Leopold Lipmann’s near neighbour was the composer Alban Berg - the contrast was striking.


About Jill Whitehead

Jill Whitehead née Servian (Serwianski) has been researching her family for 25 years. All her ancestors came from the Suwalki Lomza areas of NE Poland to northern England or Scotland between 1865 and 1875. Jill sat on the Editorial Board of Landsmen, the Journal of the Suwalki Lomza Interest group. Until her retirement, Jill was a Social Research Manager which helped a lot with family history skills.
After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk.
 

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!
 

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts. In particular, if you get stuck in a registration loop, you may want to upgrade the version of Zoom on your PC, but please email me and I can help you through this…



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Jenny Osorio invites you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: JGSGB SWL RG - with Jill Whitehead – “The History of my House: the Dukes family of Hlohovec, Vienna and Budapest”

When: Jan 3, 2021 02:30 PM London
 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcu2vqTsoH9Fi8EO_dw83ub9WOOvtfR6s
 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Happy New Year!
Leigh Dworkin

Chairman, JGSGB

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