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SIMON Pál

 

Vital Statistics
Name SIMON Pal
Occupation After finishing junior high school, he became an apprentice salesman for a hardware store. Later on he became the manager. In WWI he was drafted.
Parents SIMON Jakab and MAHLER Róza [1][2]
Born Nagyvarad, May 18, 1895 [7]
Died 29 June 1916 [4] at the Doberdo, Italy (Italian Front) in WWI [2] (was 18 years old at time of death?[1]) (alternate: Sankt Michele, Austria[2])

On Uncle Pali
translated from a letter from Emoke Brull[5]
The WWI also brought tragedies to the Simon Family. As it was told by aunt Bozsi too, Pali the oldest son was called in to be a soldier. He was a (store)-teller as a civilian he was not sent to a fighting unit, but he was serving in a storage [facility] at the rear-[lines] of the country. Since he was very trustworthy, in 1918 he was allowed to take a liberty. [Arriving] home he found his family in much poverty, so during the time of the liberty he went to work [took some jobs] . Someone denounced him [...], and as a punishment, he was sent to the first line of the front and there he was killed by a gas attack.

On My Brother Jabab's Son Pali
Diary of Geza Simon, 1901

His [Jakab's] son Pali was learning to be a clerk in a hardware business, and as an apprentice, he became employed by one of Budapest’s first wholesale trader (Frankl. B.).

His son Pali was inducted on May 15, 1915 to serve his military duty and, after a few weeks of training, he went to the front within the 1st Honvédezred  [military group] as a corporal.  He was involved in numerous combats and got injured.  As an injured [soldier] he came home, but after the recovery from his injuries he had to go back to the front.  During his brief stay there in the battle against the Italians, on June 29, 1916, he received a major injury and died, to the undescribable grief of his parents and of all of us.  Even though he is in an unmarked mass grave, he remains in our grateful memories.

On My Brother Pali
from a video interview with my grandmother BOSKE MOHOS in 1997
From the front, Pal wrote his mother a letter telling her to buy some new shoes with the money he had in the bank so she wouldn't be cold. His mother mourned him long after his death.[1]
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Sources

[1] Böske MOHOS (oral)
[2] SIMON Family History (originally record by Geza SIMON)
[3] Tony LINHARDT (oral)
[4] SIMON Pal death certificate.
[5] Letter Emoke Brull 7 Nov 2001 [Comments in brackets are added by the translator, Anthony Linhardt]
[6] Nagyvarad Temple Records, Oradea National Archives
[7] Nagyvarad temple records list Pal's birthday as May 18, 1895 (although Geza Simon's family genealogy lists the birthday as May 17, 1895.

21 April 2007; pml