Editing Robert Capa (section)

==Personal life==
Capa was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest,<ref>[http://jewish.hu/view.php?clabel=robert_capa "Robert Capa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425160759/http://www.jewish.hu/view.php?clabel=robert_capa |date=April 25, 2012 }}, Jewish History, Hungary</ref> where his parents were tailors. Capa's mother was a successful fashion shop owner, and his father was a tailor in her shop.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://iphf.org/inductees/robert-capa/|title = Robert Capa}}</ref> Capa had two brothers: a younger brother, photographer [[Cornell Capa]] and an older brother, László Friedmann. Not much is known of Capa's older brother László, except that he married Angela Maria Friedmann-Csordas in 1933. He died a in 1935 of rheumatic fever and was buried next to his father in the [[Kozma Street Cemetery|Kozma Utca Jewish Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/L%C3%A1zsl%C3%B3-Friedmann/6000000104949747189|title=László Friedmann|website=geni_family_tree|date=September 23, 1911 }}</ref>

At the age of 18, Capa moved to [[Vienna]], later relocated to [[Prague]], and finally settled in Berlin: all cities that were centers of artistic and cultural ferment in this period. He studied at the [[Deutsche Hochschule für Politik]] from 1931 until 1933, when the [[Nazi Party]] instituted restrictions on Jews and banned them from universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Capa |url=https://capacenter.hu/en/robert-capa/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Capa Központ}}</ref> He then moved to Paris and in 1934 met Gerda Pohorylle, a German Jewish refugee. "André Friedman", as he called himself then, taught Gerda photography, and together they created the name and image of "Robert Capa". At that time, both photographers published their work under the pseudonym of Robert Capa.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eldiario.es/cultura/fenomenos/Gerda-Taro-Robert-Capa-seudonimo_0_732126905.html|title=Gerda Taro, Robert Capa y los peligros de firmar con un seudónimo masculino|work=eldiario.es|access-date=January 23, 2018|language=es}}</ref> Gerda later took the name [[Gerda Taro]] and became successful in her own right. She travelled with Capa to Spain in 1936 intending to document the Spanish Civil War. In July 1937, Capa traveled briefly to Paris while Gerda remained in [[Madrid]]. She was killed near Brunete during a [[Battle of Brunete|battle]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gerda Taro 80: Killed on Assignment {{!}} World Book |url=https://www.worldbook.com/behind-the-headlines/Gerda-Taro-80-Killed-on-Assignment?srsltid=AfmBOooRT6LC_N8psixk4ysuYhQy-JY1G0ZHH5SiPzIJBV5Bd-Z-PMMU |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.worldbook.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |last2=O’Hagan |first2=Sean |date=2012-05-12 |title=Robert Capa and Gerda Taro: love in a time of war |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/13/robert-capa-gerda-taro-relationship |access-date=2025-04-06 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> Capa, who was reportedly engaged to her, was deeply shocked and never married.

In February 1943, Capa met Elaine Justin. They fell in love and the relationship lasted until the end of the war. Capa spent most of his time in the frontline. Capa called the redheaded Elaine "Pinky," and wrote about her in his war memoir, ''Slightly Out of Focus''. In 1945, Elaine Justin broke up with Capa; she later married Chuck Romine. Some months later, Capa became the lover of the actress [[Ingrid Bergman]], who was touring in Europe to entertain American soldiers.<ref name="Marton">{{cite book |last=Marton |first=Kati |author-link=Kati Marton |title=The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7432-6115-9 |oclc=70864519 |lccn=2006049162 |url=https://archive.org/details/greatescapeninej00mart }}</ref><sup>p.&nbsp;176</sup> In December 1945, Capa followed her to Hollywood. The relationship ended in the summer of 1946 when Capa traveled to Turkey.<ref name="vanity" />