Editing Zsa Zsa Gabor (section)

=={{anchor|Vilmos Farkas Gábor}}Early life ==
Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sári Gábor on February 6, 1917,{{efn|Gabor subtracted as much as 11 years off her birthdate when filling out official documents, including her driver's license and passport applications.<ref>"[https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/zsa-zsa-gabors-belongings-auction-54458649 Zsa Zsa Gabor's belongings are up for auction]". April 14, 2018.</ref> Her true age was exposed in November 1989, when former boarding school classmate Elizabeth Nussbaum alerted the press.<ref name="yearofbirth">{{cite web|title=The Secret Is Out: Zsa Zsa is 72|publisher=News Archive|date=November 3, 1989|url=https://apnews.com/7137f427bd21050bce56707127104950|access-date=February 14, 2014}}</ref> To fix the chronology of Gabor's pre-fame life, biographer Sam Staggs said he had to conduct "an investigation as vast as that of the Watergate scandal."<ref name="Staggs"/>}} in [[Budapest]], Hungary, then part of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]].<ref name="yearofbirth" /> The middle of three daughters, her parents were [[Jolie Gabor|Jolie]] (née <!-- Janka Tilleman -->Janszieka Tillemann) and Vilmos Gábor (né Grün),<ref name="Grün-Gábor">
*[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D1K7-SZZ?mode=g&i=217&cc=1452460 A szülők házassága Bp. VII. 1528/1917.]
*{{Cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6L24-TC2?i=103&cat=292437 |title=Gábor Farkas Vilmos (Grün Wolf) születési bejegyzése a pesti ortodox izraelita hitközség születési akv. 66/1881. folyószáma alatt |website=[[FamilySearch]] |accessdate=February 10, 2021}}
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*{{cite web |title=Eva Magda Jolie & Vilmos Gábor 1958 Press Photo |url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/234845026955 |website=eBay |access-date=April 30, 2023}}
*{{cite web |author1=[[Wide World Photo]] |title=Zsa Zsa and Vilmos Gabor |url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/363449794002 |website=eBay |access-date=April 30, 2023}}
*{{cite web |title=Vilmos Farkas Gábor : 19 September 1881 – 7 July 1962 |url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L5GF-K13/vilmos-farkas-g%C3%A1bor-1881-1962 |website=ancestors.FamilySearch.org |access-date=April 30, 2023}}
*{{cite web |title=Press Photo: Vilmos Gabor; Wife, Magda Budakeszi; Hungary |url=https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rsk23295 |website=Historic Images .com |access-date=April 30, 2023 |language=en |date=1953}}
*{{cite news |title=Vilmos Gábor Dead at 81; Father of Three Actresses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/11/archives/vilmos-gabor-dead-at-81-father-of-three-actresses.html |access-date=April 30, 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 11, 1962 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311004037/https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/11/archives/vilmos-gabor-dead-at-81-father-of-three-actresses.html |archive-date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> owner of a jewellery shop<ref name="encyclopedia/gabors">{{cite web |title=Gabors, The |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gabors |website=[[Encyclopedia.com]] |access-date=April 30, 2023}}</ref> store in Budapest,<ref name="fdrlibrary/wrb0210">{{cite web |title=Folder 11 Gabor, Vilmos (Mr. and Mrs.) |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/wrb/wrb0210.pdf |website=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum]] |access-date=April 30, 2023 |quote=(1944-07-08): Vilmos Gabor and Ganka Gabor. They were formerly owners of one of the prominent jewelry stores in Budapest, and we are informed that the Portuguese Embassy ... (1944-07-11): Information received here to the effect that Portuguese legation Budapest has extended refuge to Vilmos and Ganka Gabor, Hungarian Jews who are the parents of Mrs. Conrad N. Hilton the wife of an American citizen. The Portuguese Minister Budapest is reported to have arrived in Switzerland with another daughter Magda Bichovska.}}</ref> a [[Royal Hungarian Army]] officer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/29/Zsa-Zsa-Gabor.html|title=Zsa Zsa Gabor profile at|publisher=Filmreference.com|access-date=June 12, 2013}}</ref><ref>Jolie Gabor's date of birth was September 30, 1896, although most sources cite September 29, but September 30 date and her name at birth as "Janka" not "Jansci" are supported by her birth certificate.</ref> Her parents were both of [[History of the Jews in Hungary|Jewish]] ancestry.

Gabor was named after [[Sári Fedák]], an actress. Gabor was called ZsaZsa because, as a little girl, she couldn't pronounce her own name.<!-- https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_Zsazsa -->

In 1941, Gabor left [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946)|Hungary]] for the [[United States]]. During a layover at [[Eppley Airfield]] in [[Omaha, Nebraska]] en route to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], she made headlines by telling the [[Associated Press]] that she had danced with [[Adolf Hitler]] twice.<ref>''The Tampa Tribune''. June 22, 1941. p. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/327795167 3].</ref><ref>''The Lincoln Star''. June 20, 1941. p. [https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/311183984 2].</ref>{{efn|Providing belated clarification, Gabor told ''The Washington Post'' in 1988 that it was actually [[Josip Broz Tito]] she danced with, not Hitler. "Somehow, a Yugoslavian communist dictator and a Nazi tyrant occupy the same mental pigeonhole," commented the interviewer, [[Henry Allen (journalist)|Henry Allen]].<ref>Allen, Henry. (October 27, 1988). "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/10/27/thats-zsa-zsa-daaaahhling/fd33f0dc-1836-403d-91f4-babfdb340b30 THAT'S ZSA ZSA, DAAAAHHLING!]" ''The Washington Post''.</ref>}}

On July 8, 1944, aided by Gabor's husband, [[Conrad Hilton]],<ref name="dday-overlord/8-july-1944">{{cite web |title=Saturday, July 8, 1944 |url=https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy/days/8-july-1944 |website=D-Day Overlord |access-date=April 30, 2023 |date=February 19, 2016}}</ref> Gabor's parents fled Budapest during the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] [[German invasion of Hungary (1944)|invasion and occupation of Hungary]].<ref name="fdrlibrary/wrb0210"/><ref name=JPost>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Trending-Now/Jewish-born-Hollywood-star-Zsa-Zsa-Gabor-dies-at-age-99-475820 |title=Jewish-born Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor dies at age 99 |agency=Reuters |newspaper=Jerusalem Post |date=December 19, 2016 |access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dw.com/en/auf-wiedersehen-darling-a-tribute-to-the-inimitable-zsa-zsa-gabor/a-36821518 |title='Auf Wiedersehen, Darling': A tribute to the inimitable Zsa Zsa Gabor |work=Deutsche Welle (DW) |date=December 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>Adams, Cindy. ''Jolie Gabor'', Mason/Charter Publ. (1975), pp. 135–49</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-bonni-tischler-steven-spielberg-vilmos-gabor|title=Jews in the News: Bonni Tischler, Steven Spielberg and Vilmos Gabor – Tampa Jewish Federation|publisher=jewishtampa.com|access-date=July 27, 2016}}</ref><ref name=Bennetts>{{cite magazine|last=Bennetts|first=Leslie|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/10/zsazsa200710|title=It's a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=September 6, 2007|access-date=June 12, 2013}}</ref>

Gabor's elder sister, [[Magda Gabor|Magda]], later became an American socialite and her younger sister, [[Eva Gabor|Eva]], became an American actress and businesswoman. The Gabor sisters were first cousins of Annette Lantos, wife of California Congressman [[Tom Lantos]] (D-CA).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/press/2007/holocaust-helped-shape-lantos|title=Holocaust helped shape Lantos' path|work=raoulwallenberg.net|access-date=December 21, 2016 |last1=Ar |first1=Convistaalmar. com }}</ref>