User:Tamas Szabo/Brunsviga
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Employees of Brunsviga a german calculator company in Budapest about 1940
- Vilmos Plachy, grandfather from Hollywood actor Adrian Brody sitting on the left side.
- Karoly Szabo is the second in the standing row from left on this photo. He was 1944-45 employee on the swedish embassy among Raoul Wallenberg’s supporters. More details: Karoly_Szabo
Vilmos Plachy and Karoly Szabo founded together 1945 the UNIVERSAL calculator company in Budapest, distributors for Brunsviga in Hungary.
Nationalization of the UNIVERSAL calculator company in 1950 ended the business without compensation.
Vilmos Plachy and his family fled Budapest and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. That journey to America led to a life lived in exile.
Vilmos Plachys daughter Sylvia Plachy is photographer, winner of the Distinguished Photographer Award 2004. His daughter book 2004 is a composite of snapshots taken over the past forty years as Sylvia Plachy returned time and again to photograph the land she left behind. The book becomes as an extended self-portrait, mixing pictures from her family albums with images of people and places from Budapest. Sylvia Plachy calls her latest collection of work "a farewell to my long attachment to my birthplace."
Grandson of Vilmos Plachy Adrian Brody was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor.
