The Tony Curtis’s Story
Tony Curtis, originally Bernard Schwartz, was born June 3, 1925, in a Jewish family in New York City. His father was born of Manó Schwartz Mátészalka (Szabolcs-Szatmár County), and his mother Ilona Klein was born in Nagymihály (today: Slovakia. According to other data from Válykó).
On the left, his parents can still be seen in Hungary. The picture on the right is from Tony Curtis’s 1988 visit to Mátészalka.