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When
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5th December 1902
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Miskolc, Hungary
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Emeric was born.
His father is the land agent for the local Baron.
There is a quite large Jewish community in the area.
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The Pressburger family came from Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia).
Henrietta Pressburger (no direct relation) was the mother of Karl Marx.
Szentpéteri Kapu 3, Miskolc
The Pressburger family home
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1911
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Subotica
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1915
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Rudna
30 Km from Temesvar / Timisoara
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Boarded in Temesvar while at school there
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1920
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Temesvar, Hungary
becomes
Timisoara, Romania
Settlement of territories at end of WWI
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1920 - 1922
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Prague
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1923 - May 1926
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Stuttgart
Germany
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After 2 years in Prague & 3 in Stuttgart,
Emeric still never completed his studies.
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1926
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Budapest
then Timisoara
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Ran business making and selling radios
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1926/7
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Berlin
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Sleeping rough in Tiergarten
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Hostel in Friedrichstrasse
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Room in Helensee
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After selling first story "Auf Reisen"
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Furnished flat in Anspacherstrasse
(just around the corner from the
department store in Tauentzienstrasse)
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After writing "The Subject" and
the series "Writing a Film Script" for Film-Kurier, Berlin
(2nd Nov 1929 & 23rd Nov 1929)
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1931
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Apartment
155 Kufurstendam
Berlin
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July 1932
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Nazi party are elected to power as
the majority party in Germany.
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October 1932
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Emeric is told UFA won't renew his contract for 1933
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30th Jan 1933
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Adolf Hitler takes over from Hindenburg
as Chancellor.
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Feb 1933
(approx)
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Emeric decides it's time to leave Berlin & heads for Paris
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May 1933
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5 Rue Cognacq-Jay
7th arrondissment
Paris
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Nr Hotel Ansonia, a favourite
flop house for refugees
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March 1934
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Ran out of money so locked out of
Rue Cognacq-Jay
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May 1934
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Studio apartment
25 Avenue Pierre ler de Serbie
Paris
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Next door to Hotal Pierre
nr Champs Elysée
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Spring 1935
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Large flat in
6 Rue Quentin Bauchart
Paris
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Location of a brutal murder
hence the redecoration and cheap rent
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1935
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Emeric decides he would do better in England.
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Sept 1935
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34 Princes Gardens SW7
near The Albert Hall.
Building was demolished and site is now
used as Imperial College halls of residence.
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November 1935
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Room 424
Mount Royal Hotel
(now the Thistle, Marble Arch)
London, W1
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early 1938
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31 Ascot Court
Grove End Road
St John's Wood
London, NW8
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1938 - 1942
Top floor appt with balcony
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24th June 1938
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Married to Agí Donáth
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1st Sept 1939
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Hitler invades Poland.
France & England declare war on Germany
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1940
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Agí left.
They were divorced in March 1941
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France surrenders in May after 35 days fighting
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December 1940
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Emeric sees Wendy Green in Csáda in London
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22nd May 1942
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Emeric has his first date with Wendy
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November 1942
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Wendy moves into flat below Emeric's in Maida Vale
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10th December 1942
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Angela Carole Pressburger is born
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late 1942
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16 Green Lane
Hendon
NW4 2NN
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Bought in 1942 with Wendy
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(Photo by Gerald Rickwood)
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7th May 1945
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Germany surrenders
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Summer 1945
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Emeric starts to make enquiries about
his family. Very few survived the holocaust.
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1946
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Emeric becomes a British subject
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29th March 1947
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Married Wendy
She had been waiting for her
divorce to be finalised.
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May 1947
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70 Redington Road
Hampstead
London
NW3 7RS
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Now the home of the Czech Ambassador
Thanks to Stuart George for the photos
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1954
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54 Eaton Square
London
SW1W 9BE
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The Olivier's lived downstairs.
(There is a Blue Plaque to Vivien Leigh there)
Bobby Helpmann lived at 72 Eaton Square
Emeric & Wendy separated
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January 1965
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Self-designed chalet style house in
Thiersee, Austria.
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Near neighbour was his old friend
Günther "Stapi" Stapenhorst.
A "money pit" that cost him most of his fortune
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1970
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Returned to England,
Stayed at his club until Ivry Freyburg offered
him Shoemaker's Cottage.
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1970
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Shoemaker's Cottage
Aspall
Nr Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 6NY
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Emeric lived here until his death in 1988
and is buried in the local church.
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5 February 1988
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Emeric is buried at:
St Mary of Grace Church,
Aspall,
Stowmarket,
Suffolk
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He died of bronchial pneumonia on 5 February 1988 in the Foxearth Lodge Nursing Home, Little Green, Saxtead, Woodbridge, Suffolk, about 10 minutes away from Shoemaker's Cottage.
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