The silent street

 

Star of David signs to designate persons of Jewish origin, their homes, businesses and industries used from 1942 to 1944. By Order No. 32 of 29 September 1942 of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, all Jews over the age of 10 in The Kingdom of Bulgaria were obliged to wear the Star of David, made of bakelite, on the left side of their upper garment.

Regional History Museum - Sofia, Regional History Museum - Pazardzhik, State Agency Archives

The National History Museum displays five clocks in the current exhibition. 

Hemispherical watch covers, engraved on the outside.

Watch, ladies, manual, white gold. Belonged to Venezia Buco Azriel.

Watch, ladies, manual, gold. Belonged to Elizabeth Ed Halas.

Watch, pocket, Roskop brand. Belonged to Avram Jako Rosenfeld.

Watch, pocket, Eterna brand. Belonged to Ilona Isak Erdyos.

Erzhibet (Elizabeth) Eduard Halas was born in 1905 in Sofia, but had Hungarian citizenship. Together with her husband Edward Ignats Halas and their six-year-old daughter Agnes-Vera, they lived in Gurko St in Sofia. Mr Halas was born in 1900 in the town of Kishkind, Hungary. In Sofia, Edward worked as a clerk at Pharmohimia AD, but received his salary from Hinoin - a factory for chemical products in Budapest. On 22 February 1941, they declared all their assets to the BNB according to Art. 26 of the National Defence Act. At the end of September 1942, with the help of the Hungarian Legation in Sofia, they requested permission from the Bulgarian authorities to return to Hungary. Mrs Halas's watch, which she dutifully declared, was damaged and remained in the bank.

Ilona Isak Erdyos. Born on 6 Oct. 1884 in Tach, Hungary, Hungarian subject, housewife. Husband - Isaac Samuel Erdös, born in 1879 in Kelemberg - Bistra, Slovakia, Hungarian citizen, economist, member-delegate at the Danubia Insurance Company AD, 16 Aksakov Street, winner of the Franz Joseph Order. Children – Anna Marta aged 30 and Eva aged 23 (circa 1941). Address in Sofia - 9 Oborishte St. They left for Hungary in June 1942. The address they gave there was Budapest, 63 Bimbo St. Part of the family's personal belongings remained deposited in the Bulgarian Credit Bank, including three silver watches.

On 18 Sept. 1945, Dragoljub Yosif Kalev, representative of the Erdyos family, officially informed the Bulgarian authorities that Ilona and Isak Erdyos had been shot by the Germans in Budapest in 1944 and that their two daughters were alive. He pointed out that, as of 19 Sept. 1945, Marta had been married to Georg Mezei and lived in Budapest. Eva (born about 1918) was married twice - her first husband, Bellandfan, was a French officer who was killed in action with the Germans in 1940 in Flanders. Eva's second husband had the surname Rouillet and in 1945 they both lived in the town of Konyak, together with Eva's child from her first marriage.