Reghina Flamm (born Friedmann), 1898 –1944 A Childhood in the Heart of Maramureș Regina Friedmann was born on 10 February 1898 into a family deeply rooted in Jewish traditions. A Hungarian national, she was born in the small village of Copalnic, near...
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Reghina Flamm (born Friedmann), 1898 –1944 A Childhood in the Heart of Maramureș Regina Friedmann was born on 10 February 1898 into a family deeply rooted in Jewish traditions. A Hungarian national, she was born in the small village of Copalnic, near Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War, the Empire collapsed, and in 1918 Copalnic became part of Romania. Her father, Mór (or Mauritiu) Friedmann, was a cattle dealer originally from Bükkösfalva (now in Slovakia). Her mother, a housewife, appears in the archives under several different names, including Göbel Záli, Lolti Srobel, and Sröbel Lále. These variations are most likely the result of handwritten civil records and the coexistence of several languages in this part of Central Europe. Regina's birth certificate also records the names Rifke Lea, reflecting her Jewish heritage. These differences remind us that reconstructing a person's life from historical records often requires c
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