Böske Simon (1909–1970) was a
Jewish Hungarian beauty queen
A beauty pageant is a competition in which the contestants are judged and ranked based on various physical and mental attributes. Per its name, beauty pageants traditionally focus on judging the contestants' physical attractiveness, sometimes so ...
, the first winner of the title
Miss Hungary
Miss Hungary is a national Beauty pageant in Hungary first held in 1929.
History
* 1929 - World War II The first pageant was held in 1929 and the winner of it won the Miss Europe title. In 1936 Zsa Zsa Gabor won the title, but she was underage ...
(1929) and the winner of the
Miss Europe 1929 pageant, held in Paris. After her victory in Paris she was received in private audience by the French President, fêted in Vienna on her return journey to Hungary, and greeted at the railway station in Budapest by a crowd of thousands.
[Mark Traa, ''De mooiste van het land'' (Amsterdam, 2015), unpaginated electronic edition]
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/ref> She was soon, however, subjected to antisemitic
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attacks and political pressure.[Louise O. Vasvári]
Böske Simon, Miss Hungaria and Miss Europa (1929): Beauty Pageants and Packaging Gender, Race, and National Identity in Interwar Hungary
''Hungarian Cultural Studies'', 12 (2019), pp. 193-238. On 22 December 1929 she married the textile business heir Pál Brammer, but the couple divorced in 1935.[ She then married Dániel Jób, artistic director of the Comedy Theatre of Budapest. The couple survived the Second World War in hiding but lived in poverty for the remainder of their lives.][
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1909 births
1970 deaths
Miss Europe winners
Hungarian beauty pageant winners
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