Editing Jolie Gabor (section)

==Family==

[[File:Birth Record for Jolie Gabor (born Jancsi Tilleman).jpg|thumb|left|Birth Record for Janka Tilleman]]

Gabor was born Janka Tilleman<ref>Also spelled '''Tillemann''' by other branches of the family, i.e. [[Annette Lantos|Annette Tillemann Lantos]].</ref> on September 30, 1896, in [[Budapest]], [[Austria-Hungary]]. Her parents were Jona (or Jónás) Hersch Tilleman (son of Schie Tilleman and Scheindel Grossman) and Chawe Feige (later  Franceska) Tilleman (née Reinharz, Reinharcz, or Reinhartz; daughter of Eiseg Reinharz and Dorottya Stein); both of Jolie's parents were of [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galician]] [[Jewish]] ancestry (Galicia was then part of the [[Austrian Empire]], present-day in [[Poland]] and in [[Ukraine]]). The Tillemans were jewelers who owned a jewellery shop known as "The Diamond House". Her father changed his forenames to József. The Tilleman family's Jewish descent was also cited by a surgeon, Dr. Laszlo Tauber,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/us/laszlo-tauber-dies-at-87-a-patron-in-war-and-peace.html | title=Laszlo Tauber Dies at 87; A Patron in War and Peace | work=The New York Times | date=July 31, 2002 | last1=Lewis | first1=Paul }}</ref> also Jewish and a friend and neighbor of the Gabors in Budapest.<ref> ''Forbes Magazine'', volume 134, October 1984, p. 40.</ref>

The Reinharz family of Gabor's mother had established jewelry shops in Vienna; her mother's uncle helped the Tillemans open their jewelry business, "The Diamond House", located at Rákóczi utca 54. in Budapest.<ref>''Jolie Gabor'', by Jolie Gabor as told to Cindy Adams, Mason Charter, 1975, p. 4</ref><ref name="San Antonio Light 1950, p. 16"/><ref>In her own memoirs, Zsa Zsa Gabor used the spelling ''Franceska''.</ref> Franceska (Josef Tilleman's widow), briefly married a medical doctor and general physician, Dr. Miksa Kende (né Kohn), son of Mór Lipót Kohn and Resi Kohn.<ref>Dr Kende (Jolie's stepfather)'s name and the correct spelling of his surname cited in ''Em lékkönyv a Királyi magyar természettudományi társulat'' (''Magyar Természettudományi Társulat'', 1892), p. 792. {{ISBN?}}</ref>

Gabor was the aunt of Annette Tilleman (b. 1931), daughter of Jolie's brother Sebestyén Tilleman, and wife of Hungarian-American U.S. Representative [[Tom Lantos]] (né Lantos Tamás Péter, in Budapest), the first, and to date only, Holocaust survivor to serve in either house of the United States Congress. Szebasztian Tilleman (or Tillemann as his branch of the family style themselves) and his mother, the Tilleman matriarch Franceska, were killed during an apparent Allied bombing raid on [[Budapest]] in 1944.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/01/MNGBDNB8MF1.DTL&type=printable|title=Lantos the master storyteller, communicator|first=Edward|last=Epstein|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=January 1, 2007}}</ref><ref>Kurt F. Stone. ''The Jews of Capitol Hill'' (Scarecrow Press, 2010, p. 371){{ISBN?}} states that [[Annette Lantos|Annette Tillemann Lantos]] is a first cousin of the Gabor sisters, which would make her Jolie Gabor's niece. Annette Lantos's father, Sebestyén (or Sebastian), was Jolie's youngest and only male sibling. Annette's mother was Mary (née Seidner or Zeidner; 1908-1999).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westword.com/2008-07-10/news/denver-s-own-royal-tannenbaums/3|title=Denver's Own Royal Tenenbaums|page=3|first=Joel|last=Warner|publisher=Denver Westword|date=July 10, 2008}}</ref>

Addressing her birth forename, usually reserved for Hungarian males, Gabor stated, "My parents were so eager to have a son they named me Jancsi, which translated comes out Little John or Johnny".<ref>''Jolie Gabor'', by Jolie Gabor as told to [[Cindy Adams]], Mason Charter, 1975, p. 3{{ISBN?}}</ref> Her birth certificate, however, indicates her birth name was "[[Janka]]". The third of five surviving children, Gabor's siblings comprised three sisters and one brother: Dóra, Eugénia ("Zseni" or "Janette"), Rozália ("Rosalie" or "Rozalie"), and Sebestyén (or Szebasztian; nicknamed "Seb"). A sister, Sydonia, died shortly after birth in 1895. Jolie's other sisters are all believed to have survived the war. Rozália emigrated to Australia with her first husband, Emmanuel Reiss.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Rosalie-Reiss-Strasser/6000000004693357313|title=Rosalie Reiss - Strasser|website=geni_family_tree|date=October 5, 1898 }}</ref> Dóra returned to Hungary, where she and her husband, Hugo Klein, died.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Dora-Klein/6000000004693248658|title=Dora Klein|website=geni_family_tree|year=1891 }}</ref> Eugénia married Armin Arvay; the surname later anglicized to "Harvey".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Jeanette-Eug%C3%A9nia-Harvey/6000000004693314322|title=Jeanette (Eugénia) Harvey|website=geni_family_tree|date=September 12, 1892 }}</ref> 

Although born in 1896, Gabor claimed to have been born in 1900, once jokingly stating that she had lied so much about her age she did not remember her actual birth date.<ref>Jolie Gabor gives '''Tilleman''' as her maiden name in her autobiography, co-authored by Cindy Adams, using it as a chapter heading on page 23; she gives her mother's maiden name as Reinherz. And the review by ''Publishers Weekly'' of the memoirs enthused that "Jolie Gabor, née Jancsi Tilleman, fills every page of this zany life story with her Hungarian ebullience."</ref><ref>[http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi Social Security Death Index entry under the name JOLIE DESZIGETHY], ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com; accessed February 28, 2014.{{subscription required}}</ref> Her obituary in ''The New York Times'' gave a birth year of 1900.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/03/arts/jolie-gabor-eva-and-zsa-zsa-s-mother-97.html?scp=6&sq=eva%20gabor&st=cse|title=Jolie Gabor, Eva and Zsa Zsa's Mother, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1997|access-date=July 31, 2011}}</ref> On a ship's passenger manifest dated December 30, 1945, Gabor gave her age as 45 years and two months, which would make her year of birth 1900. Her birth certificate, however, confirms her birth year to be 1896.<ref>According to December 30, 1945 manifest, accessed on [http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com (December 30, 2011)], a ''Johanna Gabor'' arrived in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] from [[Estoril, Portugal]] claiming to be 45 years old.</ref> Author [[Dominick Dunne]] stated, in 1995, that Gabor was believed to be 109, which would mean a birth year of approximately 1886.<ref>Dominick Dunne, "The Two Faces of O.J.", ''Vanity Fair'', November 1995, pp. 124-.</ref> A 1900 year of birth, however, would have made her 13 at the time of her first marriage. 

The 1987 edition of ''Biographical Dictionary'', cites Jolie Gabor's complete birthdate to be September 29, 1896, as does the 1959 ''International Celebrity Register''.<ref>''Biography Almanac'' (Gale Research, 1987), pg. 2366</ref><ref>Cleveland Amory, ''International Celebrity Register'' (Celebrity Register, 1959), p. 277</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com/fransiska_reinhartz_records.ashx?pid=189275688|title=Fransiska Reinhartz 1879 {sic} - 1944|publisher=ancestry.com|access-date=December 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>Jolie Gabor's name on a ship manifest in 1945 en route to the United States lists her as "Johanna Gabor".</ref><ref>Jolie's brother, Sebestyén (or Sebastian) Tilleman, was referenced in ''Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story, written for me by Gerold Frank'', World Publishing Co., 1960.{{ISBN?}}</ref>