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Category: Translation - Hungarian
Approval Date: 4/1/2026 4:35 PM
Family Surname: Birkenfeld-Klein
Country: Hungary
Town: Besztercze
Date of Image: 1903

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Greetings and Chag Pesach Sameach!

I have a few of these Hungarian birth records..this one from 1903 for my grandpa’s younger sister Helen, one of 11 children of my great grandparents who I’m told married for love. (They were not Orthodox or Hasidic.)

May I trouble someone for a complete translation, or a recommendation of someone who might provide this? It is my hope that this and the couple other records hold clues that can help me break through a wall with my great grandma Regina Klein’s mother, Pepe Reinicz, and her ancestral line. Regina left Hungary to join husband Mozes (a grocer) in Pittsburgh the year following Helen’s birth. She came over with 8 children in tow, ages 1 to 16!

Thanks in advance for help or advice.

Response

4/1/2026 5:07 PM

Number 84. Dated in Besztercze, 6 April 1903.
Informant: Mrs. Illés Klein born Róza Klein, residence Besztercze, whom the below-written registrar knows personally.
Father: Mózes Birkenfeld, Jewish, cigar factory worker, residence Pittsburg (in America), birthplace Sereth (Bukovina), age 41 years.
Mother: Mrs. Mózes Birkenfeld born Regina Klein, Jewish, residence Besztercze, birthplace Aldorf, age 35 years.
Birth: Besztercze, 31 March 1903, 12:30 a.m.
Child: girl, Jewish, Ilona (Helene)
Remark: Mrs. Illés Klein born Róza Klein declares that she bears direct knowledge of the birth and that she was asked to make the report by the child's mother. Mózes Birkenfeld is an Austrian citizen and bears community residency in his birthplace.
Read forth, explained to the non-Hungarian-speaking informant in the German language understood by her, approved, and signed.

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