Éva Horváth Kiss was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913 to Iván Horváth and Erzsébet Szőke. Although she aspired to become a doctor, her family would only give her permission to become a pharmacist. Éva was married to Dr. Elemér Kiss, originally from Szentgotthárd, Hungary. Elemér was a lawyer in Hungary, who worked at the Hungarian National Bank.
Dr. Kerenyi lived through WWII which had a profound impact on him. At the age of 10, his father was taken as a political prisoner to serve in a Siberian labor camp for ten years. Shortly after he returned, he made the agonizing choice to leave his reunited family and risk his life fleeing the country in search of freedom in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
Siblings Steve (1941), Attila (1943) and Magda (1945) Kaloz grew up together in Tiszaföldvár, Hungary in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They lived in a small town where their father, Istvan was a successful local businessman - until after WWII, when the regime confiscated all the family’s holdings and their business.
