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120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland

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C 5: Object/ mother's brooch

I inherited this brooch from my mother. My mother, who had stayed behind in Hungary, took her own life in 1960, after my brother had been sentenced to death in the Imre Nagy trial and had been executed in 1958, and the Kàdàr regime had made it impossible for her to see those of her family who had fled abroad, even though she had become very ill.

Judith M., born 1920, from Budapest, Hungary