Anna Zádor


Anna Zádor or Anna Zador was a leading Hungarian historian.

Life

Zádor was born in Budapest in 1904 to a Jewish family. She took a degree in Art History at Pázmány Péter University. She volunteered to work for Professor Antal Hekler at the Eötvös Loránd University for a decade.
She survived the second world war but both her brother and her husband died in concentration camps. After the war she led the Franklin Society.
She began teaching Art History in 1951 and she gained her doctorate in 1961. She became widely known for the books that she published. These dealt with the Italian renaissance, Hungarian culture and history and the English Garden in Hungary
Zádor died in Budapest in 1995. There is a plaque in her memory on Rózsahegy Street No 1/b in Budapest. Zador's memoirs are a useful source for the Holocaust in Hungary as she survived and she knew many who did not.

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