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 193...